Sacrifice

Title: The sacrifice (Offret)
Country: Sweden | France | UK
Year: 1986
Director: Andrei Tarkovski
Cast: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Tommy Kjellqvist
Duration: 142 min.
Language: Swedish | French | English
Plot: Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all.

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