Spirit (1989)

1989

Nadia does not want her widowed father Bramasto to marry Astria as she’s sure that her new stepmother is not a good woman. Her suspicions are correct. After the marriage, Astria has an affair with Lukito, Bramasto’s black-magic-practicing brother.

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 […]