Stalker
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Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Run Time: 162 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1979 Language: Russian with English subtitles
Starring: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Alisa Freyndlikh, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Natasha Abramova, Nikolay Grinko
Screenwriters: Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy
Producer: Aleksandra Demidova
No one has ever blended Science Fiction and existentialism in the way that cinematic demi-god Andrei Tarkovsky did, and Stalker is one of his most exquisite examples. Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings. One of filmmaking’s greatest achievements – this is not to be missed on the big screen!
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