In 1985 and 86, as 54-year-old filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky was dying of lung cancer, he managed to complete The Sacrifice, one of his finest works. Tarkovsky’s career began in his home country, the ...
The legendary Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky traveled to Sweden to complete “The Sacrifice,” which, unbeknownst to him, would be his final work. As with much of his career, the film examined death ...