m. butterfly

Director: david cronenberg

Actor: jeremy irons,john lone,barbara sukowa,ian richardson

Data Published: Fri Oct 01 1993

Genres: Drama,Romance

Key Words: female nudity,topless female nudity,china,opera,spy

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107468/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Butterfly_(film)

Description: M. Butterfly is a movie starring Jeremy Irons, John Lone, and Barbara Sukowa. In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

Plot: Loosely based on true events (see Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu), the film concerns René Gallimard (Jeremy Irons), a French diplomat assigned to Beijing, China in the 1960s. He becomes infatuated with a Chinese opera performer, Song Liling (John Lone), who spies on him for the Government of the People's Republic of China. Their affair lasts for 20 years, with Gallimard all the while apparently unaware (or willfully ignorant) of the fact that in traditional Chinese opera, all roles are performed by men.