Stalker
- 1979
- USSR
- 161 min
- PG
- Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
- Written by: Arkadi Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
- Cast: Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko
Tarkovsky's adaptation of the Strugatsky novel about the aftermath of an alien visitation. The stalker is a man who is prepared to act as a guide through the contaminated area, but the director uses the Zone as a locale of very human desires and projections. Visually splendid and intellectually provocative, Stalker is one of Tarkovsky's most accessible films.
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Reviews & features
Q&A: Geoff Dyer on new book Zona at 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival
2 Aug 2012
Dyer sets out to unlock Andrew Takovsky's Stalker in new book
Give us five words to describe Zona? My thoughts on Tarkovsky’s film Stalker [Ed: OK, that’s six, but we’ll let Geoff off]. Which author should be more famous than they are now? John Jeremiah Sullivan who wrote Pulphead. He is a great stylist and…
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