Save and Protect (Спаси и сохрани) 35 years old

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.

Credits

Save and Protect Cast

Name	Character
Cécile Zervudacki	as Madame Bovary

Save and Protect Crew

Name	Department
Gustave Flaubert as Novel. He was 167 (58) years old when He died	Writing
Aleksandr Sokurov as Director. He was 37 (now 72) years old	Directing
Yuriy Arabov as Screenplay. He was 34 (now 69) years old	Writing
Sergey Yurizditskiy as Director of Photography. He was 41 (now 77) years old	Camera