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title: 'The Dream of Butterfly (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Carmine Gallone'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 96
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-dream-of-butterfly-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031949/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Dream of Butterfly (1939)

1939 · 96 min · Drama · Italy

Original title: Il sogno di Butterfly

## Synopsis

The Dream of Butterfly is a 1939 musical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Maria Cebotari, Fosco Giachetti and Germana Paolieri. It is a variation of the plot of the opera Madame Butterfly. A co-production between Italy and Germany, two separate versions were produced in the respective languages. It is also alternatively titled Madame Butterfly. It was one of several opera-related films directed by Gallone, following on from Casta Diva (1935) and Giuseppe Verdi (1938).

## Credits

- **Director:** [Carmine Gallone](https://cinepixo.com/people/carmine-gallone)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Giacomo Puccini](https://cinepixo.com/people/giacomo-puccini)
- **Director of Photography:** [Anchise Brizzi](https://cinepixo.com/people/anchise-brizzi)
- **Editor:** [Elisabeth Kleinert-Neumann](https://cinepixo.com/people/elisabeth-kleinert-neumann)

## Cast

- [Germana Paolieri](https://cinepixo.com/people/germana-paolieri)
- [Renato Cialente](https://cinepixo.com/people/renato-cialente)
- [Tito Gobbi](https://cinepixo.com/people/tito-gobbi)
- [Guglielmo Barnabò](https://cinepixo.com/people/guglielmo-barnabo)
- [Paul Kemp](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-kemp)
- [Angelo Ferrari](https://cinepixo.com/people/angelo-ferrari)
- [Roma Bahn](https://cinepixo.com/people/roma-bahn)
- [Gertrud de Lalsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/gertrud-de-lalsky)
- [Else Ehser](https://cinepixo.com/people/else-ehser)
- [Herbert Weißbach](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-wei-bach)
- [Rio Nobile](https://cinepixo.com/people/rio-nobile)
- [Fosco Giachetti](https://cinepixo.com/people/fosco-giachetti)
- [Alfred Neugebauer](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfred-neugebauer)
- [Gino Viotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/gino-viotti)
- [Miranda Bonansea](https://cinepixo.com/people/miranda-bonansea)

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