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Butterfly

7.2/ 10

TMDB Rating

23

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2025

Release Year

15 min

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Animation
Drama
History

Overview

A Jewish North African middle-aged man's swim in the sea triggers memories of his earlier life as an Olympic swimmer before and after World War II.

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Keywords

world war ii
antisemitism
swimmer
discrimination
hand painted animation
ww2
wwii

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CinemaSerf

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@Geronimo1967

January 19, 2026

7
7/10

There’s a really quite sad story contained within this short, sketch-style, animation. It’s inspired by the life of Alfred Nakache. He was a French Algerian, dark skinned and Jewish swimmer who just happened to be at the top of his game just as the munificence of National Socialism was extending thr

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