Francophania + L Arche Russe (2 Blu-Ray Collector)

THE RUSSIAN ARK: Invisible to those around him, a contemporary director finds himself as if by magic in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg at the beginning of the 18th century. There he meets a cynical French diplomat of the 19th century. The two men become accomplices during an extraordinary journey through time, through Russia's turbulent past, which leads them to the present day. FRANCOFONIA: 1940. Paris, occupied city. What if, in the flood of bombardments, the war swept away La Venus de Milo, La Joconde, Le Rafeau de La Méduse? What would Paris become without its Louvre? Two men whom everything seems to oppose Jacques Jaujard, director of the Louvre, and Count Franz Wolff-Metternich, appointed head of the German commission for the protection of works of art in France join forces to preserve the Museum's treasures. Throughout the story of this little-known story and a humanist meditation on art, power and civilization, Alexandre Sokourov gives us his portrait of the Louvre.