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The Sacrifice
1986
· Movie
· 149 min
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #453
- IMDb #638
- Rotten Tomatoes #679
- Letterboxd #147
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1284
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #574
+5 more
- Metacritic Critics #410
- Criticker #166
- Kinopoisk #577
- AlloCiné #1344
- Trakt #940
Every rating
72–90
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 90.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Details
- Director
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Writer
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Studio
- Faragó Film, Svenska Filminstitutet
- Released
- 9 May 1986
- Country
- Sweden
- Language
- Swedish, Icelandic
- Runtime
- 149 min
- Rated
- PG
- Box office
- $1.1M
- Awards
- 3 wins, 1 nomination
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Cast
Full cast (17) →
Awards & nominations
See all 4 →1 major award won · 3 wins from 4 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix 1986 | Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix | Winner | |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 1987 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Sweden | Nominee |
| Greta 1986 | Greta | Winner | |
| Guldbagge Award 1986 | Best Film | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix
1 nomination, 1 won
| Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix | Winner |
International Submission to the Academy Awards
1 nomination
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Sweden | Nominee |
Greta
1 nomination, 1 won
| Greta | Winner |
Guldbagge Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Film | Winner |