 The case was again back under a public spotlight when a play loosely based on this affair, "M. Butterfly" by David Henry Hwang, premiered in 1988 and yet again as the film adaptation of the play directed by David Cronenberg was released in 1993.Periodic restagings of the play and television airings of the film based on it continue to spark interest in the espionage case at the heart of the fictional works of art.Boursicot was born in 1944.