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The Monarch Butterfly

198030mMovieScience FictionTV Movie

A young biophysicist, dreaming of spiritual and physical immortality, makes an experiment on himself: by radioactive irradiation he violates the genetic code, as a result of which he passes into another biological substance and becomes immeasurably more perfect than his fellows on Earth.

DirectorAvtandil Kvirikashvili
WritersVytautas Žalakevičius·Ray Bradbury

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Cast · Directed by Avtandil Kvirikashvili

DBDonatas Banionis
Donatas Banionis
JKJuozas Kiselius
Juozas Kiselius
AAAleksandr Abdulov
Aleksandr Abdulov
DMDavid Mkrtchyan
David Mkrtchyan
AMAlgimantas Masiulis
Algimantas Masiulis
AFAlbert Filozov
Albert Filozov

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The Monarch Butterfly hasn't started streaming in United Kingdom yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around June 30, 1980. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.