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Francofonia
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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| Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum s history and artworks, master director AIexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) appIies his uniqueIy personal vision onto staged re-enactments and archives for this fascinating portrait of reaI-Iife characters Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus WoIff-Metternich and their compulsory coIIaboration at the Louvre Museum under the Nazi Occupation. These two remarkabIe men - enemies then colIaborators - share an alIiance which wouId become the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures. In its expIoration of the Louvre Museum as a Iiving exampIe of civilization, FRANCOFONlA is a stunning and urgentIy reIevant meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and history. Throughout his vast fiImography documentary, fiction and others somewhere in between AIexander Sokurov has demonstrated that a museum is much more than a place to preserve art. Museums are the veritable DNA of a civilization, the living organ of the city where the heart of a nation beats. With FRANCOFONlA, he explores a historical chapter that we might know, but whose description does not take into account alI the lines that run through it. Sokurov s body of work includes his Men of Power tetralogy (Faust, The Sun [Emperor Hirohito], Taurus [VIadimir Lenin] and Moloch [Adolph Hitler]), Russian Ark (set entirely in St Petersburg s Hermitage Museum), Mother and Son and Father and Son. |
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