Stalker

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Stalker is a 1979 Soviet science fiction art film by Andrei Tarkovsky that follows a guide leading two men through a mysterious forbidden zone said to grant one’s deepest desires.

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Stalker canonical 9

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet film
art film
film
science fiction film
basedOn Roadside Picnic
novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky
colorProcess color
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
director Andrei Tarkovsky
directorFilmographyEntry Andrei Tarkovsky filmography
distributor Mosfilm
editor Lyudmila Feiginova
filmingLocation Estonia
Tallinn
genre art film
drama
science fiction
hasCultFollowing true
hasTheme desire
despair
faith
hope
the nature of reality
hasType feature film
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
mainCharacter Professor
Stalker self-link
Writer
musicBy Eduard Artemyev NERFINISHED
notableFor long takes
minimalist narrative
philosophical themes
slow cinema style
originalLanguage Russian
partOf Soviet science fiction cinema
plotSummary A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires.
producer Aleksandra Demidova
productionCompany Mosfilm
releaseDate 1979-05-25
releaseYear 1979
runtimeMinutes 161
screenwriter Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
setting The Zone
unnamed country
title Stalker self-link

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Andrei Tarkovsky notableWork Stalker
Stalker mainCharacter Stalker self-link
Stalker title Stalker self-link
Nostalghia follows Stalker
Nostalghia precededBy Stalker
sculpting in time discusses Stalker
subject surface form: Sculpting in Time