SUN OCT 27, 2024 12:00 PM

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  • RELEASED IN: 1986
  • 146 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Andrei Tarkovsky

ABOUT THE FILM:

In Swedish with English subtitles. 

As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson), news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island — and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by Tarkovsky’s arresting palette of luminous greys washing over the bleak landscape around their home. For Alexander, a philosopher troubled about man’s lack of spirituality, the prospect of certain extinction compels the ultimate sacrifice, and he enters into a Faustian bargain with God to save his loved ones from the fear which grips them.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Kino Lorber

COUNTRY: Sweden