Save and Protect (1989)
2h 48m
Running Time
January 1, 1989Release Date
Save and Protect (1989)
2h 48m
Running Time
January 1, 1989Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Cécile Zervudacki
Emma / Wife
Aleksandr Abdulov
Actor
Aleksandr Cherednik
Actor
Aleksandr Sokurov
Director
Gustave Flaubert
Writer
Yuriy Arabov
Writer
Sergey Yurizditskiy
Cinematographer
Leda Semyonova
Editor
Details.
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Wiki.
Save and Protect (Russian: Spasi i sokhrani) is a 1989 Soviet drama film directed by Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov. It depicts the decline of a childlike woman as she engages in adultery and falls into crippling debt. It is loosely adapted from Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.
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