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Stalker

Cast

Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Alisa Freyndlikh View All

Crew

Andrei Tarkovsky (Screenplay), Andrei Tarkovsky (Director), Arkadiy Strugatskiy (Writer), Boris Strugatskiy (Writer) View All

Release: May 25th, 1979

Runtime: 2 hours, 42 minutes

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

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The Sci-Fi Slob
Stalker is a very complex film, however, its plot is very simple: a man living in a desolate and miserable industrial Russian town, promises two men (a writer and a professor), that he will guide them to the center of a forbidden area known as 'The Zone' to find a room which can apparently grant wi....

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Captain Spaulding
The mysterious power of the Zone held me within its grip and kept me enthralled until, like the characters in the film, I began to lose hope.

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