The Sacrifice is Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film, completed only months before his death from cancer at the age of 54.

The Sacrifice is a work made under the sign of one of Tarkovsky’s masters, Ingmar Bergman: the film was shot in Swedish with several of Bergman’s principal actors, including Erland Josephson in the lead, and his DP Sven Nykvist. It is, most certainly, a final testament. But it is also, like every Tarkovsky film, a plunge into the uncanny and the uncharted.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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