Stalker
Stalker is a 1979 Soviet science fiction art drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. The film combines elements of science fiction with dramatic philosophical and psychological themes.
Plot
In the distant future, the protagonist (Alexander Kaidanovsky) works in an unnamed location as a "Stalker" who leads people through the "Zone", an area in which the normal laws of reality do not apply and remnants of seemingly extraterrestrial activity lie undisturbed among its ruins. The Zone contains a place called the "Room", said to grant the wishes of anyone who steps inside. The area containing the Zone is shrouded in secrecy, sealed off by the government and surrounded by ominous hazards.
More details
author | Andrei Tarkovsky Arkady Strugatsky Boris Strugatsky |
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director | Andrei Tarkovsky |
editor | Lyudmila Feiginova |
genre | drama philosophical science fiction |
keywords | breaking the fourth wall build deform directly to the camera distant future drink fat man fear of losing fyodor tyutchev lose nagasaki nuclear bomb nikolai grinko nobel prize nuclear bomb psychokinesis read surround travel |
musicBy | Eduard Artemyev |
producer | line producer unit production manager |
productionCompany | Mosfilm |
publisher | Goskino |
recordedAt | Tallinn |
theme | avant-garde and experimental religion science fiction drama transport |