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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305744108
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 6305744106
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Kino Video
Release Date: March 07, 2000
Running Time: 246 minutes
Sales Rank: 16515
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1986-11
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Swan song
Tarkovsky's relatively early death robbed us of one of our greatest film makers. "The Sacrifice" was his final film, directed after Tarkovsky had been diagnosed with what he knew was his final illness. In the film, which he originally planned to entitle "The Witch," Tarkovsky clearly wants both to help himself make sense of the ending he's personally facing, and to invite viewers to think about the existential issues raised by mortality in general.
The film's plot is simply told, although ... Read More
Rating:  - A haunting final sacrifice
Andrei Tarkovsky's "The Sacrifice" is a quietly philosophical masterpiece. It's about the end of the world, but don't expect massive explosions and asteroids headed to the earth. Alexander (Erland Josephson) is an atheist in an unhappy marriage with his younger wife Adelaide (Susan Fleetwood) Adelaide is carrying on an affair with his doctor. He has a bored teenaged daughter,as well as a very young son he calls "Little Man" and "Word." Alexander wonders about the purpose of life; he has lost faith. When ... Read More
Rating: - Attention: this film requires you to think
There is no simple answer, no simple review or "reading" of this film which can be proven to be correct. Indeed, this film requires you to think and provide your own answers. All great works of art are like this, I think.
Background information is very important in this case: Tarkovsky was dying of cancer while he shot this film. He completed the shooting, but did not live to see the final copy.
Be prepared to devote some time and energy in order to appreciate was this film has ... Read More
Rating: - A very good film, though not a great one....
I do love Tarkovsky (as many who know me will attest), and I do like The Sacrifice very, very much. It has some astounding, memorable sequences in it. It has evocative use of Ebarme Dich, Mein Gott from Bach's St. Matthew Passion (one of Tarkovsky's favorite composers and one of his favorite musicial pieces), excellent performances (even more remarkable when you take into account he shot the film in Swedish, not his native tongue), and beautiful cinematography (by the late Sven Nykist, Ingmar Bergman's ... Read More
Rating: - A TRANSCENDENT HYPNOTIC MASTEREPIECE
In decades of movie going and collecting, only a few films keep coming to mind at unexpected moments. For me, this is what great art does; that is, it becomes a part of one's experience and not just a momentary diversion.
THE SACRIFICE is such a film. It touches on the most fundamental questions of being a human in our post-modern world. And it does it with extraordinary grace and a sublime, haunting, beauty. For me, it is a transcendent and hypnotic masterpiece. What cinema aspires to but ... Read More
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