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The Sacrifice (Offret)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama
Release Date:November 1, 1986
Running time:149 minutes
Cast:Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Tommy Kjellqvist, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir
Director:Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer:Andrei Tarkovsky

Description: 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 light, the film opens and closes with two of cinema's most breathtaking single-take sequence shots.

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