The cry of the butterflies


Original title: El Grito de las Mariposas
Series
March 2023 – Disney+ (Worldwide)
1 Season- 13 Ep. x 50’
Biopic-Political thriller
Creator/Showrunner
Juan Pablo Buscarini
Direction
Leandro Ipiña, Mariano Hueter, Ines París
Script
Ricardo Rodriguez, Juan P Buscarini, Juan Carballo, Azucena Rodriguez, Pablo E Bossi, G.Nicoli
Production companies
Mediabyte, Pampa Films, Gloriamundi
Streaming
Disney +, Star +, Hulu.
Cast
Sandy Hernandez, Susana Abaitua, Luis Alberto García, Camila Issa, Essined Aponte, Alina Robert, Hector Noas, Mauricio Cujar
Synopsis
Between 1930 and the day of his assassination in 1961, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, aka «El Chivo,» transformed the Dominican Republic into a dictatorship, rife with abuses. Planned assassinations, gender-based violence, artistic and sporting spectacles, and absolute control of the media were the tools used by one of the most grotesque tyrants of the 20th century to control the people. Only a few brave individuals risked their lives to confront him. Minerva Mirabal, nicknamed «La Mariposa,» was one of them. A unique, beautiful, cultured, and committed woman, whose short life hastened the end of the totalitarian regime.