# The Sacrifice (1986)

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**Original title**: *Offret*
**Runtime**: 149 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Andrei Tarkovsky
**Written by**: Andrei Tarkovsky
**Starring**: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Guðrún Gísladóttir, Sven Wollter, Valérie Mairesse

> *The final film of Andrei Tarkovsky*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, cerebral, dread, slow-burn

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