Agency:.Co-produced by Pravda and the National Film Board of Canada with the financial participation of Norsk filminstitutt. Agency - French program:.Animation/Youth Studio.

Director, Pjotr Sapegin ; producer, David Reiss-Andersen, Marcel Jean ; screenplay, Berit Reiss-Andersen ; director of photography, Janne Hansen ; animation, Pjotr Sapegin, Ronald Kubicek Hansen ; puppets, Eugenia Bogolubova ; models, Ronald Kubicek Hansen ; editor, Pal Gengenbach ; Arri Laser recording, Andreas Rostock, Pelle Folmer ; music, Giacomo Puccini ; music recording, François Arbour ; sound editing, Jean-Baptiste Roger ; re-recording, Serge Boivin.

Recorded 2001.

An animated short inspired by Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly: The puppet Butterfly lives alone on an island, until a white ship brings the handsome sailor Pinkerton. They become passionate lovers. Eventually his ship leaves, and Butterfly waits longingly for her lover to return. She feels ocean of life growing in her belly. The ocean swells, and a small, unprotected mussel washes up on the shores of her body. He soon grows into a beautiful child. But when Pinkerton finally returns, he tears away Butterfly's child, dashing all her fragile hopes. Butterfly can find comfort only in death... yet how is a puppet to die? Film without words.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Bronze Plaque Award - Category: Entertainment, 2002 Award for Best International Short Film, 2002 Grand Prix "Wooden Wolf", 2002 Honorary Mention, 2002 First Prize - with a cash prize of 1,525Euros and 1,525Euros in laboratory Services, 2002 Honorary Mention, 2002 UIP Grimstad Prize, 2002 Jury Award, 2002 International Grand Prix - with a cash prize of 25,000Dkr (5,140$Cdn approx.), 2002 Third Prize for Best Film given by the Professional Jury, 2002

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).