Sacrifice

Sacrifice (赵氏孤儿, 2010) is a Chinese historical drama streaming on iFILM — watch online this retelling of a legend more than two thousand years old. Director Chen Kaige, whose Farewell My Concubine took the Palme d'Or at Cannes, sets the story in ancient China's Spring and Autumn period: warlord Tu'an Gu wipes out the entire Zhao clan — over three hundred people — in one act of vendetta. One newborn escapes.

The family physician Cheng Ying hides the baby, losing his own wife and son in the process. He then places the orphan inside Tu'an Gu's own household and waits — year after year — for the boy to grow up and learn the truth. Ge You carries the film's quiet centre: a man who traded his grief for a plan and spent eighteen years honouring it. Stream Sacrifice (2010) online on iFILM.