In the Time of the Butterflies

Call Number: SPAFFDVDI1

Alternate Title: In the Time of the Butterflies

Year: 2001

Director: Mariano Barroso

Duration: 92 mins

Language(s): Spanish

Subtitle Language(s): English

 

From 1930 to 1961, General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo held absolute control of the Dominican Republic.

His secret alliance with the church, aristocrats, intellectuals and the press were the foundation of his dictatorship.  His formula to remain in power was simple: murder anyone who opposed him.  More than 30,000 people were executed during his regime of terror.  In the Time of the Butterflies is a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960.