Butterfly City
Butterfly City- Director
- Olga Černovaitė
- Country
- Ireland (Eire)
- Year
- In production
- Genre
- Documentary
- Scriptwriters
- Olga Černovaitė
- Production
- PLANET KORDA PICTURES. Co-production: Ketvirta Versija AND CFC Short & Doc
Storyline
The city of Visaginas was created from nothing in the 1970s in order to service a powerful Soviet nuclear power station. Literally designed and shaped like the wings of a butterfly, it was intended to be a window of Soviet progress to the West. After USSR disintegration, however, EU membership meant Lithuania has to close the plant, the city’s only industry. What future for the 25,000 Russian-speaking townspeople, brought up in a country that no longer exists, citizens of a country that doesn’t want them, dependent on a single industry condemned to obsolescence?
Refusing to take sides on particular grievances in this sensitive situation, the film is simply another way of asking a rather universal question: if there is a way for different communities living as citizens in the same democratic country to maintain their identity, respect that of others, and live together without fear or suspicion.