Allan Edwall, Erland Josephson, Filippa Franzen

Made in Sweden in Tarkovsky's final year, The Sacrifice is a measured, compassionate view of humanity at the edge of apocalypse. Photographed by Ingmar Bergman's cinematographer in ethereal northern l...( read more  read more... )ight, the film opens and closes with two of cinema's most breathtaking single-take sequence shots.

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PG, 2 hrs. 29 min.

Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky

Release Date: November 1, 1986

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DVD Release Date: May 16, 2000

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  • October 8, 2009
    His worst and last work. He is dying and inviting to his destny. Ok. We are on the way, but a little bit slow.
  • July 30, 2009
    The Sacrifice is the kind of movie that you know something very special is happening while in the process of watching it. I feel more mature now that i've watched it. Felt myself growing as this theatrical piece developed its complexities in front of me...for hours upon end. oh t...( read more)he horror, suffering, women crying. enough.
  • July 2, 2009
    LETTERBOX. Espectacular en su complejidad filosófica y espiritual, aún cuando en ella convergen distintas doctrinas y generan una deliberada confusión. Acaso es todo un sueño o un presente alterno. / Spectacular in its philosophic and spiritual complexity, even when different doc...( read more)trines converge and generate a deliberate confusion. Perhaps it's all a dream or an alternate present state.
  • February 25, 2009
    This film feels heavily like listening to a story while having a chocolate. It is so wonderfully culminating in its emotions, very destructive in its entirety and feels heavily indebted to certain old traditions, especially those having to do with the family. It was stunning to s...( read more)ee a man go so far and to see this immense concept of sacrifice played out in this almost real portrayal of destructive zeal. The polarities of madness and normalcy are wonderfully portrayed here, offering a large array of thoughts on the subject too in its manifold perplexities and views. In fact, that was my favourite part of this film.
  • February 13, 2009
    Symbolic and psychedelic. Masterpiece.
  • February 8, 2009
    Harías todo por tus hijos?
  • December 11, 2008
    Another Tarkovsky masterpiece. What bitch?! What!
  • December 10, 2008
    no thanks not my kinda thing
  • November 26, 2008
    Well lit and shot, with a striking climax. Awful otherwise.
  • September 10, 2008
    won best Foreign film from BAFTA

Critic Reviews


January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The Sacrifice is not the sort of movie most people will choose to see, but those with the imagination to risk it may find it rewarding. full review

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