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Madame Butterfly

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Musical
Release Date:May 3, 1996
Running time:129 minutes
Cast:Ying Huang, Richard Cowan, Richard Troxell
Director:Frédéric Mitterrand
Writer:Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica

Description: Based on Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly tells the tragic story of Butterfly, a 15-year-old geisha who marries Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, a U.S. Navy officer on leave in Nagasaki. Pinkerton, intending no more than a fling, is warned by Sharpless, the counsul in the port, that the young girl is taking the marriage very seriously. Pinkerton sails away, leaving Butterfly alone with her faithful maid Suzuki. Three years pass, and when Pinkerton's ship finally drops anchor in Nagasaki and he returns with an American wife, Butterfly's vigil ends in tragedy.

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