Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
by Andrei Tarkovsky
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Actor: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Natasha Abramova, Nikolai GrinkoDirector: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cinematographer: Aleksandr Knyazhinsky
Cinematographer: Georgi Rerberg
Cinematographer: Leonid Kalashnikov
Writer: Andrei Tarkovsky
Editor: Lyudmila Feiginova
Producer: Aleksandra Demidova
Producer: Willie Geller
Writer: Arkadi Strugatsky
Writer: Boris Strugatsky
Audio: Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Unknown; French (Dubbed), Unknown
Format: AC-3, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 163 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Kino Video
Movie Reviews of Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
Movie Review: Long, Slow - Yes. A Masterpiece? Er...
Summary: 2 Stars
Watching this movie while sleepy will induce coma!
Do not watch while depressed!
Now I have seen Solaris (I read the book first, and I actually liked it) and that film is more exciting than Stalker. To make matters worse, it seems that Stalker was filmed in a tank of dirty water.
What is this film about? As far as I can tell its about peole being affected by some place called the "Zone". Sounds like a good premise? Yes, well it would be if it was'nt so boring. Seriously, this movie works better than most sleep aids. I was out like a light after 30 minutes, but the glass of water I was holding woke me up.
I'm sure there is a perfect time to watch this film, but I have no idea when that will be. Rent this and have the FF button handy while you watch.
Summary of Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
Studio: Kino International Release Date: 11/07/2006 Run time: 163 minutesChallenging, provocative, and ultimately rewarding, Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker is a mind-bending experience that defies explanation. Like Tarkovsky's earlier and similarly enigmatic science fiction classic Solaris, this long, slow, meditative masterpiece demands patience and total attention; anyone accustomed to faster pacing is likely to abandon the nearly three-hour film before its first hour is over. On the other hand, those who approach Tarkovsky's work in a properly receptive (and wide awake) frame of mind are likely to appreciate the film's seductive depth of theme and hypnotic imagery. Set in what appears to be a post-apocalyptic future (although the time-frame is never specified), the eerie and unsettling story focuses on the title character, Stalker (Aleksandr Kajdanovsky), who leads characters known only as the Writer (Anatoli Solonitsyn) and the Scientist (or Professor, played by Nikolai Grinko) into a mysterious region called The Zone. Tarkovsky films their journey as a long odyssey, or religious pilgrimage, and center of The Zone--said to be under an alien influence--is where each of these men hopes to find a kind of personal transcendence. Despite obvious parallels to The Wizard of Oz, Tarkovsky's film is devoid of special effects or any fantastical elements typically associated with science fiction or fantasy. Instead, Stalker makes astonishing use of sound and bleak-but-beautiful imagery to envelope the viewer into the eerie atmosphere of The Zone and the dank, colorless landscape that surrounds it. And while the film's glacial pacing may be off-putting to some viewers, there's no denying that Stalker has a mesmerizing power of its own, including a thought-provoking and highly debatable ending that propels the film to a higher level of meaning and significance. --Jeff Shannon
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