Save and Protect

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| director = Alexander Sokurov

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| writer = Yuri Arabov

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| starring = Cécile Zervudacki
Robert Vaab

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| music = Yuri Khanon

| cinematography = Sergey Yurizditskiy

| editing = Leda Semyonova

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| released = {{film date |1989|||Soviet Union}}

| runtime = 167 minutes (original version)
128 minutes (re-edited version)

| country = Soviet Union

| language = Russian
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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.

Cast

Cécile Zervudacki as Emma
Robert Vaab as Charles

Reception

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."{{Cite web |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/10/movies/review-film-russian-madame-bovary-familiar-but-no-imitation.html |title=Review/Film; Russian Madame Bovary: Familiar But No Imitation |website=The New York Times |date=10 July 1992 |access-date=18 March 2016}}

The film won the FIPRESCI prize at the 1989 Montreal World Film Festival.{{Cite web |url=https://mubi.com/en/films/save-and-protect |title=Save and Protect (1989) |website=Mubi |access-date=3 December 2024}}

References

External links

{{IMDb title|id=0111254|title=Save and Protect}}

Category:1989 films Category:1980s Soviet films Category:1980s Russian-language films

Category:1980s historical drama films

Category:Films based on Madame Bovary

Category:Films scored by Yuri Khanon

Category:Soviet historical drama films

Category:Films directed by Alexander Sokurov

Category:Russian-language historical drama films