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Save and Protect

5.0(18)19902h 48m1

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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Russian

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Germany, Soviet Union

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  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereSource: IMDB (Montreal)4 Sept 1989
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical5 Sept 1990
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical (limited)15+4 May 1998

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Save and Protect was released on 5 September 1990.

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