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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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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1990-09-05
- video_camera_front Companies Lenfilm, Tretye Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie, Interpromex Industrieanlagen GmbH
- timer Runtime: 168 Mins
- star Rating: 5 / 10
- favorite Likes: 16 Likes
- info IMDB ID tt0111254
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Cécile Zervudacki
Madame Bovary
Robert Vaab
Aleksandr Cherednik
Dariya Shpalikova
Evgeny Yufit
Igor Bezrukov
Sergey Vinokurov
Pavel Fetisov
groups Crew
Yuri Khanon
Original Music Composer
Yelena Amshinskaya
Art Direction
Leda Semyonova
Editor
Zhanna Rodionova
Makeup Artist
Vladimir Persov
Sound Director
Lidiya Kryukova
Costume Design
Lyudmila Kozinets
Makeup Artist
Aleksandr Sokurov
Director
Yuriy Arabov
Screenplay
Gustave Flaubert
Novel
Tatyana Komarova
Assistant Director
Sergey Yurizditskiy
Director of Photography
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