Stalker (1979)
Country: USSR
Technical: col 161m
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsin
Synopsis:
A burnt-out writer and a scientist follow a guide into the Zone, a forbidden and closely guarded area, where a remote 'room' offers answers to those hopeful enough to receive them.
Review:
Don't look for meanings', Tarkovsky says. 'It spoils your experience of the film.' You may take this at face value, or as a key to understanding the richly symbolic language of this, his masterpiece. It is as allusive a visual experience as his other films, full of long takes, nature and art juxtaposed in microscopic detail, and with a heavy dose of mysticism. Verbose passages alternate with lengthy silences, and it is not for the faint-hearted, but as for the writer and the scientist, and ultimately the stalker himself, the journey is all.
Country: USSR
Technical: col 161m
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsin
Synopsis:
A burnt-out writer and a scientist follow a guide into the Zone, a forbidden and closely guarded area, where a remote 'room' offers answers to those hopeful enough to receive them.
Review:
Don't look for meanings', Tarkovsky says. 'It spoils your experience of the film.' You may take this at face value, or as a key to understanding the richly symbolic language of this, his masterpiece. It is as allusive a visual experience as his other films, full of long takes, nature and art juxtaposed in microscopic detail, and with a heavy dose of mysticism. Verbose passages alternate with lengthy silences, and it is not for the faint-hearted, but as for the writer and the scientist, and ultimately the stalker himself, the journey is all.
Country: USSR
Technical: col 161m
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsin
Synopsis:
A burnt-out writer and a scientist follow a guide into the Zone, a forbidden and closely guarded area, where a remote 'room' offers answers to those hopeful enough to receive them.
Review:
Don't look for meanings', Tarkovsky says. 'It spoils your experience of the film.' You may take this at face value, or as a key to understanding the richly symbolic language of this, his masterpiece. It is as allusive a visual experience as his other films, full of long takes, nature and art juxtaposed in microscopic detail, and with a heavy dose of mysticism. Verbose passages alternate with lengthy silences, and it is not for the faint-hearted, but as for the writer and the scientist, and ultimately the stalker himself, the journey is all.