Save and Protect

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.^[1]

Save and Protect
Directed by	Alexander Sokurov
Written by	Yuri Arabov
Starring	Cécile Zervudacki Robert Vaab
Cinematography	Sergey Yurizditskiy
Edited by	Leda Semyonova
Music by	Yuri Khanon
Release date	1989 (1989) (Soviet Union)
Running time	167 minutes (original version) 128 minutes (re-edited version)
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Russian French

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."^[1]

The film won the FIPRESCI prize at the 1989 Montreal World Film Festival.^[2]