IMDb > Offret (1986)

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Director:
Writer:
Andrei Tarkovsky (screenplay)
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Release Date:
November 1986 (USA) more
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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
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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:
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The part where Alexanders tells Little Man about when they found their house, is actually the true story of how Andrei Tarkovsky and his wife, Larisa Tarkovskya, found their house in the USSR. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
[sub-titled]
Alexander: Come here and give me a hand, my boy.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Moskovskaya elegiya (1987) more

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36 out of 40 people found the following comment useful.
Offret, 21 September 2004
10/10
Author: maeva (maeva808@yahoo.fr) from Honolulu, Hawaii

This is the best movie I have seen so far. I watch it again about once or twice a year, like a ritual or an annual holiday I would be taking into levels of consciousness where the mind is not really required. I do not understand, and I do not feel like I have to, it is secondary. I feel touched like only pure and silent beauty can touch me, or bliss. It is obviously created around an idea of sacrifice, being both a gift to others but also to ourselves. By offering his life in order to save his family, his grandson and the world, the main character is also giving a true meaning to his own life that had mostly been of artificiality, questionings and shallowness. Every person who enters the house, he starts seeing under a deeper if not more expressionistic light... And when he meets with magic (while making love with the witch) he creates the bridge that will take him from reality into mystery. The whole film is as breathtaking and self-sufficient as a painting, or even more so, a Russian icon. It is ageless. I suppose it will remain with me for my entire life. I consider it Tarkovsky's last will, but even more so a piece of the Human Heritage that should be protected and kept accessible for future generation.

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