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Butterflies Do Not Live Here (1958)

Butterflies Do Not Live Here poster
Original title
Motýli tady nežijí
Directed by
Miro Bernat
Genre
documentary film, short film
Country
Czechoslovakia
Runtime
13 min
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary that shows drawings made by children in the Theresienstadt ghetto and concentration camp. It presents their artwork to evoke the experience of those children during World War Two.

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What happens

Il n'y a que des papillons ici () est un film tchécoslovaque réalisé par Miro Bernat, sorti en 1959. Ce documentaire présente des dessins d'enfants exécutés dans le ghetto et camp de concentration de Theresienstadt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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