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Title: Stalker (1979)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Alisa Freyndlikh | ... | Zhena Stalkera | |
| Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy | ... | Stalker | |
| Anatoliy Solonitsyn | ... | Pisatel | |
| Nikolay Grinko | ... | Professor | |
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Natalya Abramova | ... | Marta, doch Stalkera (as Natasha Abramova) |
| Faime Jurno | ... | Sobesednitsa Pisatelya (as F. Yurna) | |
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E. Kostin | ... | Lyuger, khozyain kafe |
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Raymo Rendi | ... | Patrulnyy politseyskiy (as R. Rendi) |
In a small, unnamed country there is an area called the Zone. It is apparently inhabited by aliens and contains the Room, where in it is believed wishes are granted. The government has declared The Zone a no-go area and have sealed off the area with barbed wire and border guards. However, this has not stopped people from attempting to enter the Zone. We follow one such party, made up of a writer, who wants to use the experience as inspiration for his writing, and a professor, who wants to research the Zone for scientific purposes. Their guide is a man to whom the Zone is everything, the Stalker. Written by grantss
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The Region 2 Artificial Eye DVD includes interesting interviews with the cameraman and production designer. The production designer reveals that the film was completed only to be destroyed because it had been shot on experimental Kodak and couldn't be developed - a whole year's work was ruined. He proposes the possibility that the authorities of the time didn't want it to be developed. The incident nearly destroyed Tarkovsky. He was finally persuaded to go back and film a new Stalker, this time on a shoestring budget.
What does the film mean? Ask me again when I've watched it maybe ten times.
Certainly the Zone means more to Stalker than the Room. The Room is his living, but the Zone is an escape, a sanctuary from the noisy, industrial rusting slum where he lives (captured brilliantly in metallic sepia). In the Zone everything eventually returns to nature - like a pastoral coral reef growing on a battleship lichen and mosses engulf factory buildings and tanks. His first action on arriving there is to leave the other two occupied while he communes with the natural things growing in the zone, the grasses, the dew, the soil, the tiny worm that dances head-over-tail down his hand.
A beautiful, great and puzzling film. But then if it revealed all its secrets straight off then, apart from the beautiful visuals and the soundtrack it would be pointless watching it again. Great art only leaches out its secrets gradually and only to those with the desire to learn them.