Le Sacrifice

Cold War dread meets domestic intimacy when a journalist’s birthday party turns into a waiting room for annihilation. The film circles silence and surrender as a man trades one life for another’s. A lone actor carries the era’s last gasp.

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Andrei Tarkovsky directed Le Sacrifice in 1986. See Andrei Tarkovsky's full filmography, where to start with Andrei Tarkovsky, or where to go after you've seen everything by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Le Sacrifice was released in 1986 (SV original-language production), with a runtime of 149 minutes.