OPTIONAL SUBTITLES (ENGLISH, ROMANIAN, SPANISH, FRENCH, PORTUGUESE, RUSSIAN). Select the language you want by using “CC” option. If you want any other language just use the option “Translate Captions” from the “CC” button. The Sacrifice (Swedish: Offret)(1986) is the final film by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who died shortly after completing it. www.imdb.com Awards: www.imdb.com Country:Sweden | UK | France Language:Swedish | French | English Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy Writer: Andrey Tarkovskiy Stars:Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood and Tommy Kjellqvist Alexander, an aging atheist actor\/psychologist\/writer with a younger actress wife, a teenage daughter, and a young son (who is referred to as “Little Man” and is mute until the last shots) experiences the opening throes of the end of the world by a nuclear holocaust. In despair the protagonist vows to God to sacrifice all he loves (“I’ll give Thee all I have, I’ll give up my family, whom I love, I’ll destroy my home and give up Little Man”) if only this good act of fate may be undone, and to this end he sleeps with a local woman whom he believes to be a witch. When he wakes up the next morning everything seems “normal”, but whether Alexander dreamt the whole episode is never made explicit. Nevertheless, Alexander sets forth to give up all he loves and possesses, burning his house and being driven off to an institution. Poignantly, the first words the little boy in the film utters, in the final shot, are: “In …<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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