Butterfly and Flowers (1985)
August 4, 1985Release Date
Butterfly and Flowers (1985)
August 4, 1985Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Duangjai Hathaikarn
Teacher
Rome Isara
Actor
Wasana Pholyiam
Mimpi
Suchao Pongwilai
Hu Yan's Dad
Euthana Mukdasanit
Director
Chaiyawat Pojnarak
Dunya
Panya Nimchareonpong
Cinematographer
Wanlaya Ampuch
Akreya
Attaporn Thihirun
Actor
Suriya Yaowasang
Hu Yan
Charoen Iamphungporn
Executive Producer
Niwat Sumneangsanor
Sound Recordist
Prasan Petchphong
Art Direction
Rassamee Phaoluangthong
Screenplay
Weerapong Tharasil
Production Designer
Makut Orudee
Novel
Worapa Kasemsri
Editor
Yuwadee Thaihiran
Producer
Jirapan Ansvananda
Music Score Producer
Anuwat Suebsuwan
Music Score Producer
Dnu Huntrakul
Original Music Composer
Nisa Pumpuang
Costume Designer
Sinpachai Toonrat
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Butterfly and Flowers (Thai: ผีเสื้อและดอกไม้; RTGS: Phisuea Lae Dokmai) is a 1985 Thai drama film directed by Euthana Mukdasanit, set in Muslim-majority southern Thailand. The film was screened at the 1985 Hawaii International Film Festival, one of the earliest Thai films to gain exposure outside Thailand.
The film is adapted from a 1978 novel of the same title by Nipphan (Makut Oradee), which won the award at the Thailand National Book Fair. The book has become required reading for secondary schoolchildren in Thailand.
Regarded as one of the best Thai films ever made, Butterfly and Flower highlights the hardships faced by a boy who works selling popsicles at the local train station and forced by economic circumstance to smuggle rice across the Thai-Malaysian border. Aside from exposing Thai audiences to regional poverty, the 1985 movie broke new ground by portraying a Buddhist-Muslim romance. Butterfly and Flower delighted the Thai public when it earned a Best Film award at the 1986 East-West Film Festival in Honolulu.