Sunday, 4 October 2026

Stills from Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, The Sacrifice

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Stills from Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, The Sacrifice

The protagonist chooses his own house as a votive offering to the Almighty, and promises to burn it down if the nuclear war announced on television fails to take place.

Grand Prix of the 1986 Cannes Festival. Essential viewing.

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