A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires.

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The Stalker is a philosophical science fiction film by Andrei Tarkovsky that follows a mysterious guide leading two men through a surreal, forbidden Zone rumored to fulfill their innermost desires.

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instanceOf film
philosophical film
science fiction film
award Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes (special mention, 1980) NERFINISHED
basedOn Roadside Picnic NERFINISHED
basedOnWorkBy Arkady Strugatsky NERFINISHED
Boris Strugatsky NERFINISHED
cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky NERFINISHED
colorProcess combination of sepia and color sequences
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
director Andrei Tarkovsky NERFINISHED
distributor Mosfilm NERFINISHED
editor Lyudmila Feiginova NERFINISHED
filmingLocation Estonia NERFINISHED
genre drama
philosophical film
science fiction
hasCultFollowing true
influenced Annihilation (film) NERFINISHED
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series NERFINISHED
mainCharacter the Professor NERFINISHED
the Stalker NERFINISHED
the Writer NERFINISHED
medium feature film
musicBy Eduard Artemyev NERFINISHED
notableFor long tracking shots
philosophical dialogue
slow contemplative pacing
originalLanguage Russian
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 NERFINISHED
releaseYear 1979
runtimeMinutes 163
screenwriter Arkady Strugatsky NERFINISHED
Boris Strugatsky NERFINISHED
setting the Zone NERFINISHED
unnamed industrial region
theme desire
ethics of wish fulfillment
faith
hope and despair
the nature of reality

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Stalker plotSummary A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires.