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Save and Protect

09/05/1990

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2hrs 48min

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Drama

STORY

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot. The universality of the theme of eternal struggle between the soul and the flesh is conveyed through the absence of specific reference to time or place: although the film seems to begin in 1840, its surreal mode effortlessly accommodates an automobile and the strains of “When the Saints Go Marching In” on an off-screen radio. Focusing on passion from a woman’s perspective and downplaying plot, Sokurov explores his subject in exquisite detail, capturing not only the heat of passion but also the quiet moments before and after and the innocent sensuousness of the body.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Cécile Zervudacki
  • Robert Vaab
  • Aleksandr Cherednik
  • Dariya Shpalikova
  • Evgeny Yufit

    Director

  • Aleksandr Sokurov

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Lenfilm
  • Tretye Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie
  • Interpromex Industrieanlagen GmbH

    Production Countries

  • Germany
  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • Russian

Cast

Robert Vaab

Aleksandr Cherednik

Dariya Shpalikova

Igor Bezrukov

Pavel Fetisov

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