Creative team
Written by Vladimiras Piekaris
Cinematography by Antanas Abromaitis, Alfonsas Trišus, Algirdas Šimkus
Music by Faustas Latėnas
Animators Valentas Aškinis, Anatolijus Abarenovas, Aleksejus Bukinas, Henrikas Vaigauskas, Andrėjus Ignatenko, Vincas Jurelevičius, Zenonas Tarakevičius
Artists
Jūratė Leikaitė, Rima Maminskaitė, Jolanta Šiugždaitė
About the film
A debut film by the Lithuanian animator, screenwriter, director, and producer Valentas Aškinis based on the children’s story by Vytautė Žilinskaitė. The animated film starts with a trivial everyday event: while playing, a boy touches a cactus and is pricked by its needle. In anger, he shoots an arrow at the cactus. At that moment, a world of fantasy opens before the audience. It’s full of good spirits which come to tend not only to the wounded cactus but also to the evil-ridden heart of the boy. Will he ever understand that sacrifice is the only thing that will lead to salvation and rebirth?
A classic Lithuanian fairy tale interwoven with a number of paths that all lead to the prickly truth that—ultimately—love triumphs over anger.
