Save and Protect
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| Save and Protect | |
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| Directed by | Alexander Sokurov |
| Written by | Yuri Arabov |
| Starring | Cécile Zervudacki Robert Vaab |
| Cinematography | Sergey Yurizditskiy |
| Edited by | Leda Semyonova |
| Music by | Yuri Khanon |
Release date |
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Running time | 167 minutes (original version) 128 minutes (re-edited version) |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Languages | Russian French |
Save and Protect (Russian: Spasi i sokhrani) is a 1989 Soviet historical drama film directed by Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov, starring Cécile Zervudacki and Robert Vaab. 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.[1]
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Cécile Zervudacki as Emma
- Robert Vaab as Charles
Reception
[edit | edit source]Vincent Canby of The New York Times commented that what pushes the film forward is "Emma's escalating desperation and madness, reflected in a montage of images and sound of increasingly odd design."[1]
The film won the FIPRESCI prize at the 1989 Montreal World Film Festival.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]External links
[edit | edit source]- Save and Protect at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Categories:
- 1989 films
- 1989 direct-to-video films
- 1980s Soviet films
- 1980s Russian-language films
- 1980s historical drama films
- Films based on Madame Bovary
- Films scored by Yuri Khanon
- Soviet historical drama films
- Films directed by Alexander Sokurov
- Russian-language historical drama films
- Lenfilm films
- Direct-to-video drama films
- 1980s Soviet film stubs