The Sacrifice (40th Anniversary, 4K Restoration)

Part of our Sculpting in Time: Andrei Tarkovsky season, celebrating the work of Tarkovsky with all seven of his feature films on the big screen. 

See any 3 films in this season for £24 when you book them together  – simply add the tickets to your basket and the offer will be applied at check-out.

This screening will be introduced by Dr Brian Hoyle, Senior Lecturer at University of Dundee.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s visionary final film unfolds in the hours before a nuclear holocaust. Among many other awards, The Sacrifice won the Cannes Grand Prix in 1986, the same year that Tarkovsky died of cancer in Paris at the age of 54. 

Erland Josephson, in an award-winning role, plays retired actor Alexander who is celebrating his birthday with family and friends when a crackly TV announcement warns of an imminent nuclear catastrophe. Alexander makes a promise to God that he will sacrifice all he holds dear, if the disaster can be averted. The next day dawns and, as if in a dream, everything is restored to normality. But Alexander must keep his vow.