The Cry of the Butterfly

★ 10,0/101 voti

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.