
Save and Protect 1990
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 eff
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast
Cécile Zervudacki
Madame Bovary

Robert Vaab

Aleksandr Cherednik

Dariya Shpalikova

Evgeny Yufit

Igor Bezrukov

Sergey Vinokurov

Pavel Fetisov