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The Sacrifice
UNITED STATES · 1908

The Sacrifice

D.W. Griffith
poverty loss of family class conflict charity tragedy
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Synopsis

A young beggar girl and her aged mother are tramping along the road when a motor car passing swiftly by knocks down the older woman just in front of the gates of a fine castle. The poor beggar girl, at the sight of her dead mother, calls for help, and her cries of despair are heard by the residents of the castle, who, being kind-hearted people, take the young girl away from the body of her dead mo

Cinema Atlas Connection
Tarkovsky is definitely a god. If I should name one film, I think it's 'The Sacrifice' that perhaps has made the greatest impression on me. This whole thought about saving the world, I had this thing in me, also, that I wanted to save the world.
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