Film Screening:

The Sacrifice
(Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986, 142 min, Sweden, UK, France, Swedish, French, English, with English subtitles, color, BluRay)

Famed Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's final masterpiece,The Sacrifice (Offret), is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation.

As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch, Alexander, news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by Tarkovsky’s arresting palette of luminous greys washing over the bleak landscape around their home.

Made as he was dying of cancer, The Sacrifice is Tarkovsky’s personal statement, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery (courtesy of Bergman’s cinematographer, Sven Nykvist) and heart-wrenching emotion.

"Brilliant and audacious, with one of the most extraordinary final sequences in modern cinema.” -- Peter Bradshaw, Guardian (UK)

-- Winner of four awards at the Cannes Film Festival, including the Grand Prix!

[ Click here to read a poem by the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky ]

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI) with support from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation.