Save and Protect

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Cécile Zervudacki

Madame Bovary

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Robert Vaab

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Aleksandr Cherednik

Age : 66 | Popularity : 8%

Dariya Shpalikova

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Evgeny Yufit

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Igor Bezrukov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Sergey Vinokurov

Age : 61 | Popularity : 4%

Pavel Fetisov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Aleksandr Sokurov
	Assistant Director	Tatyana Komarova
Writing	Screenplay	Yuriy Arabov
	Novel	Gustave Flaubert
Camera	Director of Photography	Sergey Yurizditskiy
Sound	Original Music Composer	Yuri Khanon
	Sound Director	Vladimir Persov
Art	Art Direction	Yelena Amshinskaya
Editing	Editor	Leda Semyonova
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Lidiya Kryukova
	Makeup Artist	Lyudmila Kozinets Zhanna Rodionova
Department	Role	Name

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