The Sacrifice (1986)

Directors

Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast

Allan Edwall, Birgit Carlstén, Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Sven Wollter, Valérie Mairesse

The story

Alexander is an actor who gave up the stage to work as a journalist, critic and lecturer on aesthetics. He lives in a beautiful house with his actress wife Adelaide, stepdaughter Marta, and young son, "Little Man", who is temporarily mute due to a throat operation. Alexander and Little Man plant a tree by the seaside, when Alexander's friend Otto, a part-time postman, delivers a birthday card to him.

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