Stalker (1979)

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Written by Arkadi Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Running Time: 160 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1979

Rating: PG Certificate

Production Country: West Germany/Soviet Union

Filmed in Colour

Near a gray, post-apocalyptic lookin, and unnamed city is a place called "The Zone".

The Zone is an alien place which is heavily guarded by barbed wire and soldiers.

Over his wife's persevering objections, one man, a stalker, rises in the dead of night. He is one of a only a few people who possesses the mental abilities to lead people into The Zone and inevitably to "The Room" - however due to this inane gift they are also pursued to be throen in jail as thy threaten The Zone, and its room.

The Room is a place where one's secret hopes and dreams actually come true.

One night, he takes a popular, yet cynical, writer and a shy scientist into The Zone

In the derelict Zone the three approach The Room which must be done indirectly.

However as they draw near, the rules seem to change and the stalker faces a crisis with what awaits him.

Broadcast in Russian dialogue with English subtitles.

Cast

Aleksandr KajdanovskyStalker
Alisa FrejndlikhStalker's Wife
Anatoli SolonitsynWriter
Nikolai GrinkoScientist
Natasha AbramovaMartha Stalker's daughter
Olegar FedoroStalker's double
Ye. Kostin
R. Rendi
F. Yurma

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