The Last Butterfly
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Brigitte Fossey, Freddie Jones, Ingrid Held, Milan Knazko, Tom Courtenay Brand: Koch International DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); Czech (Original Language); English (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 106 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-01-11 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: SHANACHIE Product features:
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Movie Reviews of The Last Butterfly
Movie Review: The Holocaust for Children
Summary: 4 Stars
Of all the holocaust movies I've seen, I can't recall any others that focus on the children. Parents who would like to teach their children about the holocaust of the Jews during W.W.II would do well to show their children this movie because it is something to which they would be able to relate. There is little, if any bad language or violence; there is one brief sex scene between the mime and the children's teacher. On the whole, it is a wholesome movie about a great evil.
Quite a bit has been written by some other reviewers regarding Stella's fully naked body shown in one scene. It needs to be emphasized that it is in no way erotic; it is simply the thinking of a young girl who has been living in a dorm where baths and simply changing clothes would be in full view of the others, much like the Jewish Kibbutz children in Palestine during the same era. The only observation I would make is that it seems inconsistent for her to get in the tub with her underwear on, say "no looking" and then a few minutes later come into the next room innocently naked.
Another interesting element in this movie is that the mime was not Jewish. He, in fact, was held in suspicion by the Jews for some time. Parents, especially of Jewish children, might want to point out to their children that it wasn't just Jews the Germans killed.
The reason I don't give this five stars is that the whole episode seems to have been pointless. There is no evidence that anyone except the German officers and Jews, people within the ghetto, got the message of the Hansel & Gretel mime play. Apparently, the Red Cross people didn't understand the message, and were even so stupid they would buy that the mime had already left the camp for Paris only a few minutes after the show.
The main value of this movie is that it is one that can be used to show children what the ghettos during The Holocaust were like in a way that the children can relate.
[There is now a 2005 movie entitled "Fateless" that deals with a child's view of the Holocost. It is about a 14-year-old boy who is taken off a Budapest bus and sent to the concentration camps. He survivied the experience, and it is based on his actual real-life experiences. Unfortunately, it is in Hungarian, with subtitles. However, it is a NY Times 'Critic's Pick' movie and I feel it it worth watching even with the subtitiles.]