Their maid Maria leaves, while nurse-maid Julia stays to help with the dinner. The family, Victor, and Otto gather at Alexander's house for the celebration. As Tarkovsky wrote, Alexander is weary of "the pressures of change, the discord in his family, and his instinctive sense of the threat posed by the relentless march of technology" in fact, he has "grown to hate the emptiness of human speech". In his monologue, he first recounts how he and Adelaide found their house near the sea by accident, and how they fell in love with it and its surroundings, but then enters a bitter tirade against the state of modern man. After Otto leaves, Adelaide and Victor, a medical doctor and a close family friend who performed Little Man's operation, arrive and offer to take Alexander and Little Man home in Victor's car, but Alexander prefers to stay behind and talk to his son. When Otto asks, Alexander says his relationship with God is "nonexistent". 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.
He lives in a beautiful house with his actress wife Adelaide ( Susan Fleetwood), stepdaughter Marta (Filippa Franzén), and young son, "Little Man", who is temporarily mute due to a throat operation. The film opens on the birthday of Alexander ( Erland Josephson), an actor who gave up the stage to work as a journalist, critic and lecturer on aesthetics. Like 1972's Solaris, it won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. He was diagnosed with cancer after making of the film, and by 1986 was unable to attend its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival due to his illness. The Sacrifice was Tarkovsky's third film as a Soviet expatriate, after Nostalghia and the documentary Voyage in Time, and he died shortly after its completion. The film combines pagan and Christian religious themes Tarkovsky called it a "parable". The Sacrifice centers on a middle-aged intellectual who attempts to bargain with God to stop an impending nuclear holocaust. Many of the crew were alumni of Ingmar Bergman's films. Starring Erland Josephson, the film was produced by the Swedish Film Institute.
The Sacrifice ( Swedish: Offret) is a 1986 drama film written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
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