Feb 2006 (7:55 min)
Nominated Best Undergraduate Film at Ottawa 2006 Animation Festival

Synopsis

A sad and funny story about the love, loneliness, and hope of an aging opera singer. Loosing the great success he once had, the singer bounces back into his old lively self after seeing a butterfly girl with whom he falls in love. Will the feeling be mutual?

Festival Screenings

• 2007 Multivision Animation Festival, St. Peterburgh, Russia, March 2007
• 2006 Ottawa International Animation Festival, Canada, September 2006
• 2006 Fourth Red Shift Film Festival, New York, U S A, February 2006

Awards

• 2008 Student Grant award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures

Credits

• Written, directed, and animated by Lev Polyakov
• Background art: Lev and Alexander Polyakov
• Music: Yelena Polyakova
• Opera singer voice: Fyodor Kuznetsov, soloist of Mariinsky Theater,
  St. Petersburg, Russia
• Latvian lullaby: Ilze and Laura Tsemenia
• Sound: Lev Polyakov and Yuri Shkuro
• Editing: Lev Polyakov and Yuri Shkuro

Screen Shots

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