In the Time of the Butterflies (film)
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| Directed by | Mariano Barroso |
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Helen Barlett Helen Buck Bartlett Tony Bill Ellen Gordon Salma Hayek |
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Julia Álvarez Judy Klass David Klass |
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Salma Hayek Edward James Olmos Mía Maestro Demián Bichir Pilar Padilla Lumi Cavazos Geraldine Bazán Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. Ana Martín |
| Music by | Van Dyke Parks |
| Cinematography | Xavier Pérez Grobet |
| Edited by | Pablo Blanco |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States Mexico |
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English Spanish |
In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film, produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso and based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name. The story is a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960.
In the film, Salma Hayek plays one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays Trujillo. Marc Anthony has a minor role as Minerva's first love, and the impetus for her later revolutionary activities.
The film begins with pictures and video of the actual victims of Trujillo. During the montage, a title card appears that says:
The scene shifts to a prison cell, where one of his victims, Minerva Mirabal (Salma Hayek), recounts the events of the story.
Minerva and her three sisters, Patria (Lumi Cavazos), Dedé (Pilar Padilla), and María Teresa "Mate" (Mía Maestro), live on a farm in rural Ojo De Agua. Minerva, the outspoken sister, convinces her father, Enrique Mirabal (Fernando Becerril), to send her, Patria, and Mate to a boarding school. The sisters spend five years away at school, during which time Minerva captures the attention of Trujillo (Edward James Olmos), who notices her at a school play.
When school is over, Minerva wishes to study to become a lawyer, but women are not allowed in law school. The sisters return to the farm, and Minerva soon meets and falls in love with Virgilio "Lio" (Marc Anthony), a member of the Dominican resistance, who gives her the nickname "Butterfly", or Mariposa in Spanish. Lio's activities during a college protest are noticed, and he is forced to leave the country out of fear for his life, though he continues to write to Minerva.
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