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评论家亚历山大（厄兰·约瑟夫森 Erland Josephson 饰）在瑞典的家中庆祝自己的五十岁生日，年幼的小儿子刚做完咽喉手术不能发声。两人在静默中种下一株树苗期待它生出绿色的枝叶，然而就在当天晚上，电台广播了一则发射核导弹的消息，第三次世界大战即将爆发。绝望的亚历山大向上帝祈祷不要发生战争，甚至他愿意奉献自己的一切来阻止世界末日的来临。期待世界重生的亚历山大在心力交瘁的情况下，烧毁了自己的房子。在熊熊大火中，亚历山大被救护车送进了医院。小儿子来到岸边继续为他们共同栽种的树苗浇水，一切似乎又恢复了平静。 苏联著名电影大师安德烈·塔科夫斯基生前执导的最后一部杰作《牺牲》，荣获1986年戛纳电影节天主教人道精神奖在内的四项大奖，并提名金棕榈奖最佳影片，于1988年荣获第41届英国电影和电视艺术学院奖最佳外语片。。Bipedalism, or 'two-footed walking', is the story of a painter who grew up in an orphanage and only years later learns the circumstances of his father's disappearance and death. Childhood memories bring the main character back to the past: he buys a house in the suburbs that used to belong to his family. In the basement, he finds his father's archives and scientific research documents on the hybridization of human race with related biological species. Studying the archive material, he unexpectedly finds evidence of efforts to renew the experiments on the remaining hybrid population. The painter then becomes a researcher, and consequently a victim. The basic idea of his father's research was to change, control and influence the process of human evolution - initially connected with eugenics theories of the period before World War II, and now being placed in a context of modern 'biotechnological' expectations by his former colleagues. The main character tries to recreate and realize his father's heritage, who was forced to cooperate with state terror organizations, using the results of his secret research. In a tragic manner, this information turns into the main character's reality, at first forcing him to reappraise his father's values and later driving him to madness. (http://www.input2002.com/en/film/24418.html)。
