The Dream of Butterfly
1939, Italian. Directed by Carmine Gallone.
Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.
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- 1h 40m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Italian
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- Released
- 10 January 1939
- Original title
- Il sogno di Butterfly
- Country
- Italy
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The Dream of Butterfly isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 10 January 1939. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Dream of Butterfly?
The Dream of Butterfly (1939) was directed by Carmine Gallone and stars Maria Cebotari, Fosco Giachetti, Lucie Englisch.