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Butterfly

Butterfly

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 4, 2019

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

68%

Original Title

Butterfly

Production Companies

Indyca, RAI Cinema

Director

Alessandro Cassigoli

Description

Eighteen year old Irma Testa is Italy’s first female boxer to make it to the Olympics. It’s a remarkable outcome for a girl raised in one of the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods of Naples.. The more Irma succeeds though, the more fragile she becomes. After a crushing defeat at the Games in Rio, she questions whether boxing is her future. She wants to chart her own path, but must first take a hard look at her personal life which she has avoided for so long.