Fresh
Tarkovsky realizes the allegorical tale with an overwhelming density of visual detail ...
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Stalker
There's no need to speak. You must only...concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder.
1979 · 2h 42m · Not Rated
Drama, Science Fiction
Directed by
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Stalker
Overview
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
Director and cast
- Andrei Tarkovsky Director
- Alisa Freyndlikh as Stalker's Wife
- Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy as Stalker
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Writer
- Mykola Hrynko as Professor
- Natalya Abramova as Marta
- Faime Jurno as Writer's Companion
- Evgeniy Kostin as Lyuger, Owner of Cafe
- Raymo Rendi as Police Patrol
- Vladimir Zamanskiy as Professor's Telephone Interlocutor (voice) (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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Not an easy film, but almost certainly a great one.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Tarkovsky conjures images like you've never seen before; and as a journey to the heart of darkness, it's a good deal more persuasive than Coppola's.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Fresh
Stalker, a somber futuristic fantasy from the Soviet Union, attempts to build an apocalyptic vision out of the most impoverished materials imaginable.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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