Directed by:
Andrei Arsenyevich TarkovskyComposer:
Eduard ArtemyevCast:
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Alisa Freyndlikh, Natasha Abramova, Faime Jurno, Ye. Kostin, R. Rendi, Sergey Yakovlev (more)VOD (3)
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Andrei Tarkovsky directs this Russian sci-fi drama about two men who are led to their innermost dreams in a strange place once inhabited by aliens. A Stalker (Aleksandr Kaidanovsky) leads writer Pisatel (Anatoli Solonitsyn) and a Professor (Nikolai Grinko) through an industrial wasteland called the Zone, in search of a room where truth is contained and wishes are said to be granted to anyone who enters. As the area has been sealed off by the government, the pair put their faith in the Stalker as he navigates his way through the Zone and along the way they each discuss their reasons for visiting the room. (Artificial Eye)
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This is exactly one of those films that I'll have to see again to try to appreciate. Tarkovsky employs an intriguing form that immediately impresses - I'm referring to the color scheme, which has two different aspects. But it is a demanding work that requires your attention and requires you to think. But it is definitely worth a watch.
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"Hardness and strength are companions of death, weakness and flexibility are an expression of the freshness of being." The notion of human humility against the belief in one's infallibility, power, and exclusivity - which proves to be fragile and uncertain when it comes to revealing what is truly inside, what this belief is truly based on. A film containing countless stimuli for reflection, from which everyone can take away something different in the end, but will certainly not be the same as when they came to the film at the beginning - just like Stalker, The Writer, and The Professor after visiting the "Zone."
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I'd rather know bittersweet happiness than a grey, uneventful life. A powerful philosophical work with many metaphors that spends its two and a half hour running time screaming at the viewer: "Either you will watch me attentively the entire time and get everything, or you will try to watch me as an ordinary disposable product and get nothing." The sea of Andrei Tarkovsky's thoughts, supported by minimalist and mystical music and wonderfully detailed camera work, brought me an unprecedented viewer experience and one of the most intellectually stimulating films of my life.
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A gem that demands quite a lot from the viewer. Stalker basically transcends the boundaries of the medium, rather than a film, it’s a philosophical composition that you can grasp in any way, and no one can say their interpretation is the right one – or the wrong one, depending on how you look at it.
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