LIKE A BUTTERFLY / МОТЫЛЕК

RUSSIA
2016, 91 MIN.
Director Konstantin Khudyakov
Script Ivan Okhlabystin
Camera Sergey Kozlov
Design Ekaterina Zaletaeva
Music Vladimir Podgoretsky
Cast: Alena Babenko, Marta Timofeeva, Anatoly Bely, Ivan Okhlobystin, Arthur Vakha, Emmanuel Vitorgan
Producers Vadim Remizov, Alena Babenko, Georgy Gavrilov
Production Film Studio KIT

Lera in her mid-thirties runs a brothel and knows this trade well. Her path to financial stability was hard and she knows that she is terminally ill. Closest human beings to her are her lover, a professional gambler wanted by mafia guys for debts and an elderly physician, who does not conceal that her days are numbered. Lera runs by chance into a six year old girl carelessly left behind by her parents. The child brings some light into Lera’s somber life full of trouble, danger and worry. The girl tries to save a butterfly from under the wheels of Lera’s car, and the fragility of human existence becomes a leitmotif of the film.

KONSTANTIN KHUDYAKOV

Born in 1938 in Moscow. In 1961 graduated from the department of acting at VGIK (class of B.Bibikov and O.Pyzhova), in 1968 – from the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors. Film and TV director, scriptwriter, actor, teacher. Merited Worker of Arts of Russia. Winner of film awards Nika and Golden Eagle. His director’s filmography includes “To Live One’s Own Way” (1976), “Ivantsov, Petrov, Sidorov…” (1978), “Who Will Pay for the Good Fortune?” (1980), “Success” (1984), “Mother of Jesus” (1990), “Impostors” (1997–2002, TV series), “No Return Address” (1998), “There is No Third Option” (2000), “Michel” (2002), “Another Woman, Another Man...” (2003), “On Upper Maslovka Street” (2004), “The Life of Another” (2006), “Thank You for Your Love!” (2007), “Heat Haze” (2008, TV series), “Once Upon a Time in Rostov” (2012), “The Road to Calvary” (2017, TV series), etc.