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] 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.
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