Stalker
Stalker
Directed by:
Andrei Arsenyevich TarkovskyComposer:
Eduard ArtemyevCast:
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Alisa Freyndlikh, Natasha Abramova, Faime Jurno, Ye. Kostin, R. Rendi, Sergey Yakovlev (more)VOD (3)
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The film follows three men - the Scientist (Nikolai Grinko), the Writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn), and the Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) - as they travel through a mysterious and forbidden territory in the Russian wilderness called the "Zone." In the Zone, nothing is what it seems. Objects change places, the landscape shifts and rearranges itself. It seems as if an unknown intelligence is actively thwarting any attempt to penetrate its borders. In the Zone, there is said to be a bunker, and in the bunker: a magical room which has the power to make wishes come true. The Stalker is the hired guide for the journey who has, through repeated visits to the Zone, become accustomed to its complex traps, pitfalls, and subtle distortions. Only by following his lead (which often involves taking the longest, most frustrating route) can the Writer and the Scientist make it alive to the bunker and the room. As the men travel farther into the Zone, they realize it may take something more than just determination to succeed: it may actually take faith. Increasingly unsure of their deepest desires, they confront the room wondering if they can, in the end, take responsibility for the fulfillment of their own wishes. (official distributor synopsis)
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This is exactly one of those films that I'll have to see again to try to appreciate. Tarkovsky employs an intriguing form that immediately impresses - I'm referring to the color scheme, which has two different aspects. But it is a demanding work that requires your attention and requires you to think. But it is definitely worth a watch.
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"Hardness and strength are companions of death, weakness and flexibility are an expression of the freshness of being." The notion of human humility against the belief in one's infallibility, power, and exclusivity - which proves to be fragile and uncertain when it comes to revealing what is truly inside, what this belief is truly based on. A film containing countless stimuli for reflection, from which everyone can take away something different in the end, but will certainly not be the same as when they came to the film at the beginning - just like Stalker, The Writer, and The Professor after visiting the "Zone."
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A gem that demands quite a lot from the viewer. Stalker basically transcends the boundaries of the medium, rather than a film, it’s a philosophical composition that you can grasp in any way, and no one can say their interpretation is the right one – or the wrong one, depending on how you look at it.
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I'd rather know bittersweet happiness than a grey, uneventful life. A powerful philosophical work with many metaphors that spends its two and a half hour running time screaming at the viewer: "Either you will watch me attentively the entire time and get everything, or you will try to watch me as an ordinary disposable product and get nothing." The sea of Andrei Tarkovsky's thoughts, supported by minimalist and mystical music and wonderfully detailed camera work, brought me an unprecedented viewer experience and one of the most intellectually stimulating films of my life.
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