Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Erland Josephson | Alexander | |
Susan Fleetwood | Adelaide | |
Allan Edwall | Otto | |
Guðrún Gísladóttir | Maria | |
Sven Wollter | Victor | |
Valerie Mairesse | Julia | |
Filippa Franzen | Marta | |
Tommy Kjellqvist | Gossen | |
Per Källman | Ambulansförare | |
Tommy Nordahl | Ambulansförare | |
Tintin Anderzon | ||
Helena Brodin | ||
Birgit Carlstén | ||
Jane Friedmann | ||
Martin Lindström | ||
Jan-Olof Strandberg |
Director | Andrei Tarkovsky | |
Writer | Andrei Tarkovsky | |
Producer | Anna-Lena Wibom | |
Photography | Sven Nykvist |
Quantity | 1 |
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Seen | |
Added Date | Mar 21, 2019 23:41:23 |
Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:56 |
Screen Ratios | Widescreen (1.66:1) |
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Audio Tracks | SUB [English] |
Distributor | KINO VIDEO |
Edition Release Date | May 15, 2018 |
Andrei Tarkovsky’s final masterpiece, The Sacrifice (1986) is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson, Cries and Whispers), news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island - and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by Tarkovsky’s arresting palette of luminous grays washing over the bleak landscape around their home. The film’s masterful cinematography is by Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman’s longtime collaborator. Made as he was dying of cancer, The Sacrifice is Tarkovsky’s closing artistic testament, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.
Special Features: "Booklet with excerpts from Andrei Tarkovsky’s diaries and an essay by film scholar Robert Bird |Disc One: Audio commentary by Layla Alexander-Garrett, Andrei Tarkovksy’s translator on the set of THE SACRIFICE | Trailer | Disc Two: DIRECTED BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY, a documentary on the making of THE SACRIFICE (102 minutes) | Interview with Michał Leszczyłowski, editor of
THE SACRIFICE and director of DIRECTED BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY"