PREMIERE: Francofonia – Aleksandr Sokurov

Another century has passed in Europe... Large armies are trampling on the heart of civilisation and cannon fire is once again taking its toll. Amidst the massacre and the ruins, everything majestic, magnificent and sacred, which took millions of minutes and hours of determined labour to build, is wiped out. Jacques Jaujard and Count Franziskus Wolff Metternich worked together to protect and preserve the treasure of the Louvre Museum. Alexander Sokurov tells their story. He explores the relationship between art and power, and asks what art tells us about ourselves, at the very heart of one of the most devastating conflicts the world has ever known.

Les Editions L'Age d'homme have recently published in French the book Alexandre Sokourov. Au coeur de l'océan, translated and presented by Jeremi Szaniawski.