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Stalker (1979)

Name: Stalker
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Genre: drama film, science fiction film, art film
Duration: 163 min
Rating: 8

Stalker 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", who guides his two clients—a melancholic writer and a professor —through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the…

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky · Shot by Alexander Knyazhinsky, Leonid Kalashnikov · Music by Eduard Artemyev · Ratio Academy ratio · 163 min

Behind the scenes

Stalker (1979): The Sci-Fi Masterpiece That Killed Its Director — CinemaTyler · 17 min
Mark Kermode reviews Stalker (1979) | BFI Player — BFI · 3 min
Is Tarkovsky's "Stalker" One of the Greatest Films Ever? — Learning about Movies · 11 min

Elsewhere

More by Andrei Tarkovsky

The Killers — 1956
There Will Be No Leave Today — 1959
The Steamroller and the Violin — 1961
Ivan's Childhood — 1962
Andrei Rublev — 1966
Solaris — 1972
The Mirror — 1975
Voyage in Time — 1983
Nostalghia — 1985
The Sacrifice — 1986

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