| The Last Butterfly | |
| Director: | Karel Kachyňa |
| Producer: | Caroline Schweich Boudjemaa Dahmane Jacques Méthé |
| Starring: | Tom Courtenay Brigitte Fossey Ingrid Held |
| Music: | Milan Svoboda Alex North |
| Cinematography: | Jiří Krejčík jr. |
| Editing: | Jiří Brožek Suzanne Lang-Willar |
| Studio: | Barrandov Studios Cinema et Communication Filmexport Praha HTV International Ltd. |
| Distributor: | Lucernafilm |
| Runtime: | 111 minutes |
| Country: | Czechoslovakia France |
| Language: | Czech English |
The Last Butterfly (Czech: '''Poslední motýl'''; French: '''La dernier papillon''') is a 1990 Czech–French holocaust drama film directed by Karel Kachyňa based on the book The Last Butterfly by Canadian author Michael Jacot.[1]
The movie had a premiere in Czechoslovakia in 1991. The film received generally positive reviews. Stephen Holden wrote in New York Times: "The mood of calm despair that hangs over the film lends it a disquietingly surreal aura. But it also plays into the story, which describes an attempt to deliver a horrifying message without stating it in words."[2] David Mills wrote in The Washington Post: "The Last Butterfly demonstrates the precious power of art to transmit emotional truths about history, if not the factual completeness of history."[3]