Stalker

Stalker

  • Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Writer: Arkadiy Strugatskiy,Boris Strugatskiy,Andrei Tarko
  • Countries of origin: Soviet Union
  • Language: Russian
  • Release date: April 17, 1980
  • Runtime: 2h 42min
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Stalker: La zona
  • "Stalker" is a sci-fi mystery film directed by Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky, starring Alexander Kedinowski, Anatoli Solonitsyn , and Nikolai Glinko.
    The film tells the story of Stalker leading scientists and writers through a "zone" with ever-changing traps to find a mysterious room that can satisfy people's wishes and desires.

    Details

    • Release date April 17, 1980
    • Filming locations Tallinn, Estonia
    • Production companies Mosfilm, Vtoroe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

    Box office

    Budget

    RUR 6,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $292,049

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $11,537

    Gross worldwide

    $303,815

    Movie reviews

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    • By Eveline 2022-04-24 07:01:05

      Watching a movie is better than reading ten years of books

      The so-called stealth is nothing but an exploration and practice of knowledge and truth. At the story level, the director did not set up hard-to-solve mysteries, but told every question on the road of exploring the truth with a sincere heart, the individual's retreat and courage in the face of the unknown, the danger of those uncertainties , a one-way ticket on the road to knowledge, curiosity, recklessness, misunderstanding, sacrifice, obsession, confusion, destruction, fulfillment... All...

    • By Kailyn 2022-04-24 07:01:05

      Got scolded by the master (revenge score)

      I have twists and turns: twists and turns one, I thought I would see a sci-fi film, but found that it was a drama in which a liar used the weakness of human desire to lure people into being fooled; I don't know that there is still hope and miracles behind the disappointment behind the hope.

      The film is very long and boring, and a large section is devoted to describing how the threesome went through the difficulties of nine, nine and eighty-one in a flash, almost fell asleep several...

    • By Kaleigh 2022-04-24 07:01:05

      A lifetime of exploration

      Picture photography is really a must. At that time, there was already such an aesthetic cognition, and it was called a master. There are not many camera stunts, but the slow and straightforward narrative. It is indeed easy to hypnotize people and make people lose patience, but it does continue to attract me to watch, maybe it is this "belief".

      I didn't understand it very well, but I vaguely understood it, so when I saw the back, I was really engrossed in it, and I knew exactly where it...

    • By Effie 2022-04-23 07:01:42

      stalker

      When one already knows something about the void, staring intently can cause a further plunge into the void. The world is bare ground with scattered words.

      Poetry is the way to enter.

      From start to finish.

      Can't stay.

      Everything is changing every second.

      Can't go back.

      No one can go back the way they came.

      Detours.

      Catkins and erratic desires.

      roads with opposite names

      lay down your weapon

      Don't make wrong choices

      The end...

    • By Palma 2022-04-23 07:01:42

      Images, shots and spiritual souls of the old tower

      About Tarkovsky's films, people have mixed opinions, some people worship it, some people think it is long and boring, I am of course the former.

      Every shot in Stalker is so picturesque, and every picture is so poetic, and the information conveyed is ubiquitous. In the stalker's dream, returning from the looping scene to the stalker, bringing the audience from the dream into the reality, plus the gentle poetic music, how can the old tower be so poetic! This is a director who...

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    • By Marge 2023-09-20 14:04:42

      People just want to raise their prices and rule the world. Even if you have the gift of making them happy, and for it you spend your whole life being a prisoner, losing everything on the other side of the world, building roads and houses, it won't help them because people don't need to fulfill their "heart desires." But it is your own destiny to be a prisoner of crossing people who cannot cross people. (This is the sobbing self-portrait of prophets with a sense of mission ^_^)...

    • By Brennan 2023-08-16 02:22:49

      Probably the longest two-and-a-half hours I've ever spent in the theater, where I look like I'm sitting there, but I don't even know where I...

    • By Trystan 2023-06-02 18:43:51

      The atmosphere of the film's setting is great, some of the scenes are "dirty" and are about to spit out - At the beginning of the film, I was attracted by the film with a strong interest in going into the mysterious area where the meteorite fell, but I slowly discovered... The rhythm seems to be a bit... When that makes When people's suppressed tones enter the "zone", they start to get excited when the colors hit like an explosion. Then... - Compared with "Horse of Turin", it looks much better...

    • By Ole 2023-05-05 13:33:09

      "My conscience longs for veganism to win the world, while my subconscious longs for a piece of juicy fat." A terrifying masterpiece, an allegorical view of the desolation of spiritual roots. Black and white life, colorful fantasy ruins. "Zone" is a magnetic field that fulfills wishes, but it is actually a black hole that devours beliefs. When you realize that your life is too heavy to come back, there is no excuse for it. | Today, the future is also part of the present. The fog of life, the...

    • By Frieda 2023-05-03 18:27:47

      My emotional outburst started when I came back from stealth and the dog ran to my wife. In Laota's films, the dog always clings to the mother's side, and together they constitute the whole image of the "house". All the metaphysical discussions in the film are not as inclusive as dedicating love. Regarding "faith", the old tower not only makes stalkers doubt in despair, but also makes children light up in silent gaze. In addition, due to the problem of Chinese translation, the story of the...

    Movie plot

    Early in the morning, the stalker got up to say goodbye to his wife, and left his home to join the two. They quietly shuttled through various terrifying and complex terrains. It turned out that twenty years ago, a Yunxing star fell to a small Russian town on the earth, and a large number of people died. The villagers ran away from this strange area (called The Zone) and disappeared. Legend has it that there is an inner room called The...
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    Evaluation action

    "Stalker" not only completely abandoned the fantasy, plot and adventure fun, but also slowed down the frequency of editing. Opened the simple route of tower style creation, and followed the three-unity principle of time, scene and behavior. In this desolate apocalyptic landscape, the audience can perceive the figures of many masters: Vigo’s daily poetry, Bresson’s asceticism, Parajenov’s mystery, Bergman’s mirror image, Antonioni’s...
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    Movie quotes

    • Stalker: Listen to this: Now the summer is passed, it might never have been; It is warm in the sun, but it isn't enough; All that I could attain, like a five-fingered leaf, fell straight into my hand, but it isn't enough; Neither evil nor good has yet vanished in vain; It all burned and was light, but it isn't enough; Life has been like a shield and has offered protection; I have been very lucky, but it isn't enough; The leaves were not burned, the boughs were not broken; The day shines like glass, but it isn't enough.

    • Stalker: What are you up to, Professor?

      Professor: Imagine what will happen when everyone believes in this Room and when they all come hurrying here. It's only a question of time. Not today, but tomorrow. And in the thousands. All these would-be emperors, grand inquisitors, fuhrers of all shades. The so-called saviors of mankind! And not for money or inspiration, but to remake the world.

      Stalker: I'll never bring that sort here.

      Professor: What do you understand? You're not the only stalker in the world. No stalker knows what ideas the people you bring here take away with them.

    • Writer: No single individual can have enough hatred or love to spread over all mankind. You desire money, a woman. Or you want your boss to get run over. That's neither here nor there. But world domination, a just society, the kingdom of heaven on earth. Those aren't desires, but an ideology, actions, concepts. Subconscious compassion cannot yet be realized as a common instinctive desire.