The Cry of the Butterfly

The Cry of the Butterfly (1999)

Drama

Seventeen-year-old Paulina, who lives with her beloved grandfather and sings in a hip-hop band, is fighting leukaemia in hospital. There she meets Pablo — alcoholic mother, absent father — a boy who has just attempted suicide. Against the odds, the two fall in love. A 1999 German television film directed by Frank Strecker, starring Marie Zielcke, Marek Harloff, Hannelore Elsner and Dietmar Schönherr; Paul Vincent and Sema Mutlu’s score won the 1999 German Television Award.

Director: Frank Strecker

Casts

	Hannelore Elsner as Susanne Thies
	Marek Harloff as Pablo
	Ralf Richter as Tom
	Kristian Bader as
	Peter Baldus as Mike
	Mareike Danneberg as Ulrike
	Carla de Andeade-Hurst as
	Manuela Duchon as Manuela
	Anna-Magdalena Fitzi as Elke
	John Freigang as Bruno
	Isabell Hindersin as Andrea
	Bert Oberdorfer as Professor Müller-Seitz
	Thomas Pohn as Doctor Götz
	Daniela Preuss as
	Marie Zielcke as Paulina
	Dietmar Schönherr as Paulinas Großvater

Crew