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Stalker

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stalker
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Time Out says

Against the fractured density of Mirror, Stalker sets a form of absolute linear simplicity. The Stalker leads two men, the Writer and the Professor, across the Zone - a forbidden territory deep inside a police state - towards the Room, which can lay bare the devices and desires of your heart. However, let no one persuade you that this is sci-fi or common allegory. The ragged, shaven-headed men are familiar from Solzenitzyn, and the zone may be a sentient landscape of hallucinatory power, but its deadly litter of industrial detritus is all too recognisable. The wettest, grimmest trek ever seen on film leads to nihilistic impasse - huddled in dirt, the discovery of faith seems impossible; and without faith, life outside the Zone, impossible. But hang on in to the ending, where a plain declaration of love and a vision of pure magic at least point the way to redemption. As always, Tarkovsky conjures images like you've never seen before; and as a journey to the heart of darkness, it's a good deal more persuasive than Coppola's. 

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Release Details

  • Rated:PG
  • Duration:161 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Screenwriter:Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
  • Cast:
    • Aleksandr Kaidanovsky
    • Anatoly Solonitsin
    • Nikolai Grinko
    • Alisa Freindlikh
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