Sacrifice

Critic Alexander (Erland Josephson) ) was celebrating her 50th birthday at home in Sweden. Her young son had just undergone throat surgery and was unable to speak. The two planted a sapling in silence, expecting it to grow green branches and leaves. However, that night, the radio broadcast a message about launching a nuclear missile, and World War III was about to break out. Desperate, Alexander prayed to God not to have a war, and was even willing to sacrifice everything he had to prevent the end of the world. Alexander, who was looking forward to the rebirth of the world, burned down his house when he was exhausted mentally and physically. Amid the raging fire, Alexander was taken to the hospital by ambulance. The younger son came to the shore and continued to water the saplings they planted together. Everything seemed to be calm again. The last masterpiece "The Sacrifice" directed by the famous Soviet film master Andrei Tarkovsky during his lifetime won four awards including the Catholic Humanity Award at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Palme d'Or for Best Film. In 1988, it won the 41st British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Foreign Language Film.