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Adelaide (Susan Fleetwood) is comforted by a family friend (Sven Wolter) after news of a
nuclear incident in Andrei Tarkovsky's "The Sacrifice."
'The Sacrifice 7 creates illusion
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By Joseph F. Healey
Special to the Daily Nebraskan
"An era can be said to end
when its basic illusions are
exhausted. "
Movie Review
"The Sacrifice" is a beautiful movie,
an illusion whose era I deeply hope and
believe has not come to an end.
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Roger Ebert says, "The movie is not
easy to watch, and it is long to sit
through." He goes on: "Candrei Tar
kovsky has obviously cut loose from any
thought of entertaining the audience
and has determined, in his last testa
ment, to say exactly what he wants, in
exactly the style he wants."
I may define "entertain" a bit
differently than others, but I was
entertained and enthralled. You may
well have been reminded of Ingmar
Bergman's works (and joys) if you saw
"The Sacrifice." Sven Kykvist, Berg
man's cinematographer (and a complex
answer to any simple question con
cerning colorization), is responsible
for the way Tarkovsky's images come to
our eyes.
And the story. Alexander has a
birthday and a dream. (Alexander is a
Swedish "intellectual." Tarkovsky was
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a Russian exile and the "greatest
Russian filmmaker since Sergei Eisen
stein," Roger Ebert says.
Beginning and ending with a tale
and his son, the "Little Man," is a story
of vision and belief in an era that may
have already ended. In the middle of
Alexander's birthday the aircraft comes
with its weapons of perfecting violence
and the hole where the television used
to be goes off the air in the middle of
last messages to a dying people.
And amidst his family, Alexander
makes choices. The most limiting factor
of the movie for me is that the most
obviously important choices are given
to the leading man. The characters are
strong throughout, but a breeze of
unfortunate patriarchism blows too
strongly at time. But it is realistic, and
it is the cinematic vision of a man. And
it is Alexander's birthday and dream.
Ethnic group
performs at UNO
The Hungarian State Folk Ensemble
will perform Feb. 28 in the UNO Strauss
Performing Arts Center Recital Hall.
The 8 p.m. performance is sponsored by
UNO's Student Programming Organiza
tion with support from the Nebraska
Arts Council and is part of SPO's "A
Season of Excellence," a cultural-events
series.
The 100-member ensemble includes
dancers, a chorus and an orchestra, all
chosen by the Hungarian government
to be official representatives abroad.
The Hungarian folk and gypsy melodies
that inspired composers such as Franz
Liszt are the foundation for the ensem
ble's dancing, costumes and singing..
All of the dances and songs are authen
tic, many dating back hundreds of
years.
The Budapest-based group is directed
by Sandor Timar, who is responsible for
selecting the dancers, singers and
musicians from the hundreds of Hun
garians who apply. Timar was born in
Szolnok, Hungary, in 1930. He began
dancing in grammar school and devoted
much of himself to the pursuit of art. In
1951 he became a professional dancer
in the Trade Union Folk Ensemble. He
later organized his own company, the
Bartok Ensemble, which gained great
popularity.
Timar has dedicated his professional
career to the preservation of the "true
Hungarian folk culture." He has
received numerous prizes and awards
including the "Erkel Prize." In direct
ing the ensemble, he seeks to present
the authentic Hungarian village folk
lore on stage while appealing to the
intellectual and aesthetic tastes of the
audience.
General-admission tickets for the
Hungarian State Folk Ensemble per
formance are $12; student tickets are
$o. Tickets are available at UNO's Milo I
Bail Student Center Business Office '
and Brandeis.