The Sacrifice
Tarkovsky’s final film, The Sacrifice was made under the sign of one of the director’s masters, Ingmar Bergman: shot in Swedish with several of Bergman’s principal actors, including Erland Josephson, and his DP Sven Nykvist, it is, most certainly, a final testament.
A new 4K restoration scanned from the original camera negative.
The sacrifice in Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film, completed only months before his death from cancer at the age of 54, is performed by Alexander, an aging professor who strikes a deal with God in order to avert humankind’s self-obliteration after the sudden outbreak of World War III. 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. A Kino Lorber release.
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