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Overview

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8.0/10   4,121 votes
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Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer:
Andrei Tarkovsky (screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
November 1986 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 7 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
The unquantifiable price of sacrifice. more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Erland Josephson ... Alexander
Susan Fleetwood ... Adelaide
Tommy Kjellqvist ... Little Man
Allan Edwall ... Otto
Guðrún Gísladóttir ... Maria (as Gudún S. Gísladóttir)
Sven Wollter ... Victor
Valérie Mairesse ... Julia
Filippa Franzén ... Marta
Per Källman ... Ambulansförare
Tommy Nordahl ... Ambulansförare
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tintin Anderzon ... (voice)
Helena Brodin ... (voice)
Birgit Carlstén ... (voice)
Jane Friedmann ... (voice)
Martin Lindström ... (voice)
Jan-Olof Strandberg ... (voice)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Le sacrifice (France)
The Sacrifice
The Witch (Sweden) (working title)
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Runtime:
149 min
Country:
Sweden | UK | France
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The line quoted by Alexander, "Which of you have done this?", is taken from "Macbeth". more
Quotes:
[first lines]
[sub-titled]
Alexander: Come here and give me a hand, my boy.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Long-Distance Runners: A Cross-Cultural Love Story (2009) more

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16 out of 21 people found the following comment useful:-
The unquantifiable price of sacrifice., 16 November 2004
Author: Sinnerman from Singapore

Behold, a torrential spew of superlatives; "Sacrifice captivates the heart." "Sacrifice stirs the soul" "Sacrifice devastates as well as it rehabilitates"....you get my drift...

An almost mythic blend of haunting imagery, rich audio cues and astounding performances, this masterwork of introspection spins a sublime poem on the conundrums of faith, unconditional love, the nature of reality and the very meaning of sacrifice. I cannot help but be moved me truly, madly, deeply.

By the time a boy rests by a lonesome tree, I realized few films will come close to injecting me with such revelatory euphoria. The Sacrifice shall be as close a religious epiphany as this "sinner" is ever gonna get. Sigh...

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