Save and Protect (1989)

1989
November 13, 2021

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 […]

The Sweet Pussycats (1969)

1969

A colonel (Sieghardt Rupp) and an earl (Ernst Stankovski) who live in opposite ends of the same castle bet each other who will be the first to bed their respective new ‘virgin’ maid. The winner will get ownership of the castle. In order to attain his goal, the colonel ignores his lusty fiancee (Edwige Fenech) but she soon finds a lieutenant (Ivan Nesbitt) to turn her attention to. Eventually, a whole stable of local prostitutes […]

Hellhole Women (1981)

1981

In Spain, a newlywed couple parks their car in a deserted land to make love and they trespass a private property. They are taken to a women’s prison and the husband is released while his wife is arrested and forced to do hard labor. Soon she learns that the women in the prison are submitted to sexual abuse to satisfy the sadistic lesbian warden and the impotent governor and his bisexual wife. Meanwhile, her husband […]

Geister die ich rief (2012)

2012
September 15, 2021

Johanna believes to find happiness and security with her husband and daughter, but facing her unfulfilled desire disturbs her serenity. Due to the death of her father, she returns after 6 years of absence to her native village in the Swedish forest. It’s when she meets her early love Elis again that she suddenly irrevocably gets thrown off her balance. Until then, she nearly had managed to forget about him, but now she gets reminded […]