Stalker

Based On the book by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Stalker (Russian: Сталкер, IPA: [ˈstaɫkʲɪr]) is a 1979 Soviet science fantasy film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the "Stalker" (Alexander Kaidanovsky), who guides his two clients—a melancholic writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and a professor (Nikolai Grinko)—through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the "Zone", where supposedly exists a room which grants a person's innermost desires. The film combines elements of science fiction and fantasy with dramatic, philosophical, and psychological themes. The film was shot over a year on film stock that was later discovered to be unusable and had to be almost entirely reshot with a new cinematographer, Alexander Knyazhinsky.

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Release date:

May 25, 1979

Director:

Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast:

Anatoly Solonitsyn, Alisa Freindlich, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Nikolai Grinko, Vladimir Zamanskiy

Genre:

Science Fiction, Drama, Arthouse science fiction, Art

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Year page:

1979 in adaptations