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Stalker
1979
With STALKER, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky returns to the mind-bending, philosophy-tinged science fiction of SOLARIS. The setting is an unnamed country in an unforeseen postapocalyptic future. A meteorite has landed, and its impact has created a mysterious phenomenon known as the Zone, within which resides a sinister room .. Read more
| Starring | Alexander Kaidanovsky, Alissa Freindlich, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko |
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| Director | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller, World Cinema |
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With STALKER, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky returns to the mind-bending, philosophy-tinged science fiction of SOLARIS. The setting is an unnamed country in an unforeseen postapocalyptic future. A meteorite has landed, and its impact has created a mysterious phenomenon known as the Zone, within which resides a sinister room said to grant humanity's deepest desires. Only Stalkers are able to enter the Zone, bringing intrepid citizens to test their strength and desires against the Zone's enigmatic treacheries. The film follows one such Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) as he attempts to bring two characters known as Writer (Anatoli Solonitsyn) and Scientist (Nikolai Grinko) into the Zone. The hapless trio makes a difficult and mud-drenched journey, dodging military guards and invisible traps and enduring extreme psychological strain. While Tarkovsky avoids any direct political reading of STALKER, the film's allegorical structure presents a powerful and disturbing metaphor for humanity's loss of and subsequent quest for faith. The Stalker's struggle to rescue himself and his family while guiding those more wretched than himself creates a physical and metaphysical drama that leaves the viewer breathless. Blending visual, narrative, and cinematic conventions to portray the fractured logic of the Zone, Tarkovsky conjures a universe of despair and desire in which science, rationalism, and technology must face off against love, humanism, and faith.
| Starring | Alexander Kaidanovsky, Alissa Freindlich, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko |
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| Director | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Studio | FUSION MEDIA |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 35 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Russian |
| Subtitles | DVD: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish |
| Released | Production year: 1979 To Rent: DVD: 22 Apr 2002 |
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"...A preternaturally vivid style rendered Dosteyevskyan by monochrome photography whose raspingly harsh textures suggest some grainy newsreel footage of the future..."
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And you thought SOLYARIS was difficult!
My dim memory is that Arkady and Boris Strugatski?s book, ROADSIDE PICNIC, which was the inspiration for STALKER, suggested that if aliens were indeed to visit ... read more »
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- 12 Apr 2005 at 16:25
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Good settings; tedious dialogue
Fabulous sets and locations are not enough. The movie could have ended without dificulty shortly after the first disk but instead you have to listen to the ... read more »
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Effort needed
A great opening, then before long everything slows to a snail's pace. Although wonderfully atmospheric this thoughtful film does require a lot of patience ... read more »
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Not for me
Interesting sets and some very atmospheric photography. However it was painfully slow and then it slowed down even more. Sitting through 5 mins of the back of ... read more »
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Stalker
With STALKER, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky returns to the mind-bending, philosophy-tinged science fiction of SOLARIS. The setting is an unnamed country in an unforeseen postapocalyptic future. A meteorite has landed, and its impact has created a mysterious phenomenon known as the Zone, within ...
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