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Butterfly
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Butterfly

Apr 4, 2019
1h 20m
★ 6.8

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Indyca
RAI Cinema

Cast

Irma Testa

Herself

Irma Testa

Lucio Zurlo

Himself

Lucio Zurlo

Ugo Testa

Ugo Testa

Emanuele Renzini

Emanuele Renzini

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