FREE ON YOUTUBE Tarkovsky - The Sacrifice

FREE ON YOUTUBE (DU FINDEST DEN GANZEN FILM FREI AUF YOUTUBE) 1986 Tarkovsky moved to Sweden, filmed on the island where Ingmar-Bergman lived and worked. The camera was held by Sven Nykvist - Ingmar-Bergman's cameraman. That's why "The Sacrifice" actually looks "bergmanesk" and that's the way it should be! Just like his older role model, Tarkovsky deals with the general moral questions of being human. A Soviet filmmaker who dares to film spiritually (the opposite of the deliberate realism of the USSR). If you read more about it, you will find out that Tarkovsky was already terminally ill when he made "The Sacrifice". For his last film he didn't choose a small theme, but the story of a man who watches and dreams that the bombers are on their way to starting the Third World War. He offers his own life as a victim; let only his family be spared. Tarkovsky has radically abandoned any attempt to entertain us. He only says what he wants. In the style he wants. In long shots and with a great distance between the camera and the objects. We step back from what happened, have time to process it. To let it work on us. There is space between the events. And suddenly we begin to ask ourselves whether we would act in the same way as the man? On his birthday he plants a tree. When he is no longer, the tree will still be. Friends and family come for his birthday. And the postman who is something like the mystic on the island. He brings the news of the inner reality. And then the news arrives that the war has broken out... I think only those who have a lot of imagination will borrow "The Sacrifice" from us on DVD, watch it and maybe like it. The others don't. Everything depends on the question whether you can feel into this man. Are you even ready for it? But a sacrifice is always willingly offered, isn't it?