фильм «Aleksandr Sokurov»
A fiction/documentary film by Alexander Sokurov about the fate of the Louvre under German occupation
The film takes place in two time layers. In 1940, the director of the Louvre, Jacques Jaujard, and an officer of the Nazi occupation army, Count Franz Wolff-Metternich, gradually turn from enemies into like-minded people. Their goal is to save international art masterpieces during the war. Nowadays, director Alexander Sokurov communicates via the Internet with the captain of a cargo ship, carrying containers with museum exhibits and fights against the storm.
The world premiere of the film took place at the 2015 Venice Film Festival.
Stas Tyrkin, Program Director of the Khudozhestvenny Cinema: «Francofonia is a lyrical-philosophical, documentary-fiction cinematic essay on Sokurov’s favorite themes of history and culture, their paradoxical interweaving and indirect influences on human life. Francofonia recalls Sokurov’s amazing talent as a documentary filmmaker. With incredible freedom and skill, he combines in one short film (less than an hour and a half) the First and Second World Wars, newsreels with Tolstoy and Chekhov (he is trying to wake them up), the occupation of Paris and the Siege of Leningrad. There is also a wonderful image of a ship caught in a storm with the cargo of cultural values, bringing them to the bottom of the sea.»
