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Alexander Sokurov is a Russian director of avant-garde and independent films that have won him international acclaim.
This box set includes three of his masterpieces, available on DVD for the very first time.
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SAVE AND PROTECT (1990)
SECOND CIRCLE (1990)
ELEGY OF LIFE (2006)
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Russian ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: 3-DVD Set, Box Set, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Regarded as one of the most important contemporary directors in Russian and World cinema, Alexander Sokurov's decade-spanning career has seen him lauded with festival prizes and hailed as a visionary maestro of the highest order. Considered as Andrei Tarkovsky's heir apparent, he is recognized for such groundbreaking films as Russian Ark (2002) and Faust (2011), which recently won the Venice Film Festival's prestigious Golden Lion award. This brand new box set contains three of his most thrilling and audacious works, available here for the first time on DVD. SAVE AND PROTECT (1989) Inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, SAVE AND PROTECT recounts the most crucial events of the heroine emma's decline and fall whilst exploring female passion in mesmerizing, exquisite detail. THE SECOND CIRCLE (1990) A haunting examination of sacrifice, spiritual communion and human dignity, THE SECOND CIRCLE tells the morally complex, heartrending story of a man confronting the death and burial of his father. ELEGY OF LIFE (2006) Sokurov himself features in this documentary portrayal of the most famous couple in Russian classical music; legendary cellist, pianist and conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich, and his opera singer wife, Galina Vishnevskaya, star of Sokurov's Alexandra. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Montreal World Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, ...Alexander Sokurov Collection - 3-DVD Box Set ( Spasi i sokhrani (Madame Bovary) / Krug vtoroy (Defteros kyklos) / Elegiya zhizni. Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya. ) ( Save and Protect / The Second Circle / Elegy of Life )
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By M. Parker
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This contains the short version of 'Save and Protect', appx 120 mins as opposed to the appx 170 of the full version. this shortened version is trite as are the reviews i have seen in connection with the film. I have found the only one worth reading is on his website -'the island of sokurov'. This short version leaves out several scenes which not only make story line difficult to understand but also some scenes which are particularly indicative of Sokurov's cinematic interests.
It has turned a film of philosophy of human relationships and life/death into a weak sexual roamings of a partially demented woman. If you are looking for sex scenes forget it - bodies of the participants are much less sexual but very human, what sex there is is remote, and the spiritual contact absent as sokurov intended to portray it in his characters.
hope you can find the full version somewhere - i have seen it on youtube and am trying to locate a copy on amazon.com. The film is cinematographically excellent as is the acting of the heroine - and it makes you think
It has turned a film of philosophy of human relationships and life/death into a weak sexual roamings of a partially demented woman. If you are looking for sex scenes forget it - bodies of the participants are much less sexual but very human, what sex there is is remote, and the spiritual contact absent as sokurov intended to portray it in his characters.
hope you can find the full version somewhere - i have seen it on youtube and am trying to locate a copy on amazon.com. The film is cinematographically excellent as is the acting of the heroine - and it makes you think
5 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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I wouldn't recommend these movies to somebody who just wants to start to know A.Sokurov. They are extremely pretentious and very boring, especialy "The Second Circle" and "Save and Protect" (even in it's significantly shortened, the new director's cut 127 min. version). The Sokurov's cinema is very uneven and quite often simply unwatchable, but still there are some good films that may be much better starters : "Mother and Son", Father and Son" and "The Sun".If you like these, they could be followed by "The Lonely Man's Voice" and "The Russian Arc".The rest, mildly putting it, are so, so.
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