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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 2016 – 87′ – DOCUMENTARY, HISTORY, WAR, DRAMA. Set against the backdrop of the Louvre Museum\u2019s history and artworks, master director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) applies his uniquely personal vision onto staged reenactments and archives for this fascinating portrait of real-life characters Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich and their compulsory collaboration at the Louvre Museum under the Nazi Occupation. These two remarkable men \u2013 enemies then collaborators \u2013 share an alliance which would become the driving force behind the preservation of museum treasures. In its exploration of the Louvre Museum as a living example of civilization,\u00a0Francofonia\u00a0is a stunning and urgently relevant meditation on the essential relationship between art, culture, and history. Throughout his vast filmography \u2013 documentary, fiction and others somewhere in between \u2013 Alexander 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\u00a0Francofonia, he explores a historical chapter that we might know, but whose description does not take into account all the lines that run through it. Sokurov\u2019s body of work includes his \u201cMen of Power\u201d tetralogy (Faust, The Sun [Emperor Hirohito], Taurus [Vladimir Lenin] and Moloch [Adolph Hitler]), Russian Ark (set entirely in St Petersburg\u2019s Hermitage Museum), Mother and Son and Father and Son.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FRANCOFONIA | 2016 – 87′ – DOCUMENTARY, HISTORY, WAR, DRAMA. Written by: Alexander Sokourov. Directed by:\u00a0Alexander Sokourov. Starring:\u00a0Louis-Do de Lencquesaing,\u00a0Benjamin Utzerath,\u00a0Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes,\u00a0Jean-Claude Ca\u00ebr. Official Selections Venice International Film Festival 2015, Toronto International Film Festival 2015. In French, Russian, German with English subtitles. A Music Box Films release. | Set against the backdrop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,121,43,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentary","category-drama","category-films-art","category-history","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18711,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18709\/revisions\/18711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by: Alexander Sokourov.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Alexander Sokourov.
\nStarring:\u00a0Louis-Do de Lencquesaing,\u00a0Benjamin Utzerath,\u00a0Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes,\u00a0Jean-Claude Ca\u00ebr.
\nOfficial Selections Venice International Film Festival 2015, Toronto International Film Festival 2015.
\nIn French, Russian, German with English subtitles.
\nA Music Box Films release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n