Save and Protect backdrop
Save and Protect poster
Trailer
Save and Protect
5.0
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2h 48m
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1990
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Released
Overview
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
Cécile Zervudacki poster
Cécile Zervudacki
Madame Bovary
Robert Vaab poster
Robert Vaab
Aleksandr Cherednik poster
Aleksandr Cherednik
Dariya Shpalikova poster
Dariya Shpalikova
Evgeny Yufit poster
Evgeny Yufit
Igor Bezrukov poster
Igor Bezrukov
Sergey Vinokurov poster
Sergey Vinokurov
Pavel Fetisov poster
Pavel Fetisov

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