Synopsis
The Return of Butterfly (1983) is a biographical drama you can watch online on iFILM, made at Ukraine's Dovzhenko Studio. Director Oleg Fialko traces the life of opera soprano Solomiya Krushelnytska, a voice that once filled the great houses of Milan, Vienna and Buenos Aires. The story unfolds as her own recollections, narrated as she looks back across the decades.
A girl from a Galician village rises to the top stages of Europe and the Americas, famous for singing Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, which gives the film its title. Fame, love, the cost of an artist's life, and a quiet ache for the home she left behind all weave through it. On the eve of a world war she makes her choice and goes back. Elena Safonova plays the singer with restraint rather than melodrama, and the music here is a character in its own right, not background. One for viewers who enjoy unhurried films about real artists. Stream The Return of Butterfly online on iFILM.
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