5325 | SACRIFICE, THE* | SACRIFICE, THE* | 1986 | color | 145 min | vhs | (Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky; with Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall) Andrei Tarkovsky's epitaph is a dark and complex drama about redemption and the nuclear holocaust. When a middle-aged intellectual in retirement on an island in the Baltic Seas witnesses signs of what he believes to be a nuclear holocaust, he offers to make the ultimate sacrifice in return for the salvation of mankind.
(In Swedish with English subtitles)
(Restricted to classroom use only)
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