Stalker
by Andrei Tarkovsky
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Actor: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Natasha Abramova, Nikolai GrinkoDirector: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cinematographer: Aleksandr Knyazhinsky
Cinematographer: Georgi Rerberg
Cinematographer: Leonid Kalashnikov
Writer: Andrei Tarkovsky
Editor: Lyudmila Feiginova
Producer: Aleksandra Demidova
Producer: Willie Geller
Writer: Arkadi Strugatsky
Writer: Boris Strugatsky
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Subtitled); Russian (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 163 minutes
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Studio: Fox Lorber
VHS Movie Reviews of Stalker
Movie Review: Read the short story first or you will miss too much.
Summary: 5 Stars
Unless you read the short story ROADSIDE PICNIC, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, before you see this film you will not understand a great deal of what is going on. The movie maker has only so much time, so most of the underlying story revealed in ROADSIDE PICNIC will be lost on the viewer, or the viewer lost. This is also a movie that is best viewed in uninterrupted silence.
And, yes, "Stalker" was a terrible choice for the title, especially because that term had taken on an awful criminal/psycho association in the US press. He should have left it as simply "The Guide".
Summary of Stalker
Challenging, provocative, and ultimately rewarding, Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker is a mind-bending experience that defies explanation. Like Tarkovsky's earlier and similarly enigmatic science fiction classic Solaris, this long, slow, meditative masterpiece demands patience and total attention; anyone accustomed to faster pacing is likely to abandon the nearly three-hour film before its first hour is over. On the other hand, those who approach Tarkovsky's work in a properly receptive (and wide awake) frame of mind are likely to appreciate the film's seductive depth of theme and hypnotic imagery. Set in what appears to be a post-apocalyptic future (although the time-frame is never specified), the eerie and unsettling story focuses on the title character, Stalker (Aleksandr Kajdanovsky), who leads characters known only as the Writer (Anatoli Solonitsyn) and the Scientist (or Professor, played by Nikolai Grinko) into a mysterious region called The Zone. Tarkovsky films their journey as a long odyssey, or religious pilgrimage, and center of The Zone--said to be under an alien influence--is where each of these men hopes to find a kind of personal transcendence. Despite obvious parallels to The Wizard of Oz, Tarkovsky's film is devoid of special effects or any fantastical elements typically associated with science fiction or fantasy. Instead, Stalker makes astonishing use of sound and bleak-but-beautiful imagery to envelope the viewer into the eerie atmosphere of The Zone and the dank, colorless landscape that surrounds it. And while the film's glacial pacing may be off-putting to some viewers, there's no denying that Stalker has a mesmerizing power of its own, including a thought-provoking and highly debatable ending that propels the film to a higher level of meaning and significance. --Jeff ShannonArt House & International VHS Video
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