Alexander Sokurov Collection (3-disc) (ej svensk text)

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 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. USSR, 127mins. approx. 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. USSR, 85mins. approx. 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. Russia, 100 mins. approx.