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Stalker is a 1979 Soviet science fiction, art, and drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The screenwriters were Andrei Tarkovsky, Arkady Strugatsky, and Boris Strugatsky, with the story based on Roadside Picnic. The cast includes Anatoly Solonitsyn, Alisa Freindlich, Alexander Kaidanovsky, and Nikolai Grinko. Eduard Artemyev composed the music, while Mosfilm served as the production company. The film was shot in black-and-white in Tallinn and distributed by the State Committee for Cinematography and Netflix.
The original Russian-language film has a runtime of 162 or 163 minutes and uses the Academy aspect ratio. It was released on May 25, 1979, with a budget of 120000. Audience ratings include an 8.1 average from 2494 votes on TMDb and an 8.0 rating from 156204 votes on IMDb.
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Film · TMDB
8.1Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
Cast
- Alisa Freyndlikh as Stalker's Wife
- Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy as Stalker
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Writer
- Mykola Hrynko as Professor
- Natalya Abramova as Marta
- Faime Jurno as Writer's Companion
Themes
- based on novel or book
- guard
- wish
- stalker
- alien
- strugatsky
- writer
- soldier
- existentialism
- zone
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