SOKUROV: EARLY MASTERWORKS (Whispering Pages / Stone / Save and Protect) [Blu-ray and DVD] by Cinema Guild

Description

A deluxe collector's set featuring three early masterworks by visionary Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov in newly translated and restored director's cuts: WHISPERING PAGES, a brooding, beautiful film inspired by nineteenth-century Russian literature, primarily Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment; STONE, a mysterious fable about a young night watchman's encounter with the ghost of Chekhov; and SAVE AND PROTECT, a visually sumptuous adaptation of Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

DISC ONE – WHISPERING PAGES (Blu-ray)
– Soviet Elegy (1989, 68 minutes), a documentary by Alexander Sokurov
– An Example of Intonation (1991, 48 minutes), a documentary by Alexander Sokurov
– Questions About Cinema (2008, 60 minutes), a documentary on Alexander Sokurov

DISC TWO – STONE (DVD)
– Audio Commentary by film critic and curator James Quandt
– Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat (1998, 48 minutes), a documentary by Alexander Sokurov
– The House That Chekhov Built (30 minutes), a BBC audio program on Anton Chekhov's house in Yalta, the setting for Stone
– Sonata For Hitler (1979-1989, 10 minutes), a short film by Alexander Sokurov

DISC THREE – SAVE AND PROTECT (DVD)
– SD copy of WHISPERING PAGES (1994, 70 minutes)