Offret (1986)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Andrei Tarkovsky

Writer:

Andrei Tarkovsky (screenplay)

Release Date:

November 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

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...

Plot Keywords:

Spirituality | Dream | Psychological Drama | Hope | Tree

Awards:

Won BAFTA Film Award. Another 7 wins & 1 nomination

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)

Also Known As:

Le sacrifice (France)
The Sacrifice
The Witch (Sweden) (working title)

Runtime:

149 min

Country:

Sweden | UK | France

Language:

Swedish | French | English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Iceland:L | Italy:T | Australia:PG | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-12 | South Korea:15 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG (1992 re-rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:12 (f) | UK:15 (original rating) | Hong Kong:IIA

Filming Locations:

Filmhusateljéerna, Filmhuset, Svenska Filminstitutet, Gärdet, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company:

Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI)

Trivia:

The cottage burnt down while the film jammed in the camera and the crew could not reload with new in time, hence it had to be reconstructed and burnt a second time.

Quotes:

[first lines]
[sub-titled]
Alexander: Come here and give me a hand, my boy.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Cinéma, de notre temps: Une journée d'Andrei Arsenevitch" (2000)

Slow but satisfying.

Quite possibly my favourite film. Quite why I'm not always sure -- perhaps this is really a rather pretentious film ? Perhaps one in which a long time is spent without engaging the audience ? One with perhaps the most unlikely postman one might meet outside of a Bergman film set ? But, from the moment the camera opens lovingly on the icon, to the closing as the ambulance drives away, I find myself captivated, and drawn back to watch again. As with Tarkovsky's other films, certain images linger long in the memory:"little man" watering the ikebana, the levitating witch, the crashing milk jug, the roar of the jets. For those of us cursed with a lifetime of weekly wage slavery this is a fine restorative film for the spirit.