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Stalker ()

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A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
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Zhena Stalkera
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Stalker
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Pisatel
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Professor
Natalya Abramova ...
Marta, doch Stalkera (as Natasha Abramova)
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Sobesednitsa Pisatelya (as F. Yurna)
E. Kostin ...
Lyuger, khozyain kafe
Raimo Rendi ...
Patrulnyy politseyskiy (as R. Rendi)
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Professor (uncredited) (voice)

Directed by

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Andrei Tarkovsky

Written by

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Arkadiy Strugatskiy ... (novel "Piknik na obochine") &
Boris Strugatskiy ... (novel "Piknik na obochine")
 
Arkadiy Strugatskiy ... (screenplay) &
Boris Strugatskiy ... (screenplay)
 
Andrei Tarkovsky ... (screenplay) (uncredited)
 
Arseniy Tarkovskiy ... (poems)

Produced by

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Aleksandra Demidova ... executive producer

Music by

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Eduard Artemyev ... (as Eduard Artemev)

Cinematography by

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Aleksandr Knyazhinskiy
Georgi Rerberg ... (1977)
Leonid Kalashnikov ... (uncredited)

Editing by

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Lyudmila Feyginova

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Tatyana Alekseeva ... assistant editor (as T. Alekseeva)
Bozhena Maslennikova ... colorist (as T. Maslennikova)
Tatiana Maslennikova ... color grader

Production Design by

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Aleksandr Boym
Andrei Tarkovsky

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Shavkat Abdusalamov ... (uncredited)

Set Decoration by

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Rashit Safiullin

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Nelli Fomina ... (as Nina Fomina)

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Vitaliy Lvov ... key makeup artist (as V. Lvov)

Production Management

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Tamara Aleksandrovskaya ... assistant production manager (as T. Aleksandrovskaya)
Willie Geller ... production manager (as V. Geller)
Vladimir Mosenkov ... assistant production manager (as V. Mosenkov)
Vera Vdovina ... assistant production manager (as V. Vdovina)

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Arayk Agoronyan ... trainee assistant director (as A. Agoronian)
Mariya Chugunova ... assistant director (as M. Chugunova)
Larisa Tarkovskaya ... assistant director
Evgeniy Tsymbal ... assistant director

Art Department

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A. Merkulov ... construction coordinator
Evgeniy Tsymbal ... property assistant
Jean-Michel Folon ... poster designer: France (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Vladimir Sharun ... sound

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Sergey Bessmertniy ... second camera technician
Nonna Fudim ... camera operator
Ivan Gekoff ... steadicam operator
Lev Kazmin ... electrician
Vadim Murashko ... still photographer (as V. Murashko)
Sergei Naugolnykh ... camera operator (as S. Naugolnykh)
Grigory Verkhovsky ... assistant camera
Sergey Zaytsev ... assistant camera (as Sergei Zajtsev)

Location Management

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Arvo Iho ... location scout: Estonia (uncredited)
Oskar-Martin Vedru ... location manager: railroad-specific scenes (uncredited)

Music Department

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Emin Khachaturyan ... conductor
Raisa Lukina ... music editor

Script and Continuity Department

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Anatoliy Stepanov ... script supervisor

Additional Crew

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Olegar Fedoro ... body double: Aleksandr Kajdanovsky
Konstantin Lopushanskiy ... production assistant
Mickey Cottrell ... publicist (uncredited)
Arvo Iho ... production assistant: Andrei Tarkovsky (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

In a small, unnamed country there's an area called the Zone. It's an unusual area, and within its a place known as the Room, where it's believed wishes are granted. The government declared The Zone a no-go area and have sealed it off. This hasn't stopped people from entering the Zone. A writer, and a professor, want to reach the Zone. Their guide - a man known as a stalker, has a special relation with the Zone. Written by grantss

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Taglines 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. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Сталкер (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • 潜行者 (China, Mandarin title)
  • Sztalker (Hungary)
  • 潛行者 (Taiwan)
  • Călăuza (Romania)
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Runtime
  • 162 min
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Budget RUR1,000,000 (estimated)

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Trivia Director Andrei Tarkovsky spent about a year shooting all of the exterior scenes. The first part of this shoot was done over the spring and summer of 1977 with cinematographer Georgi Rerberg, using a new Kodak 5247 film stock provided by movie producer Sergio Gambarov. However, after developing these negatives, they came back with an unwatchable shade of dark green. According to the film's sound technician Vladimir Sharun, Tarkovsky always claimed that the movie was sabotaged by one of his enemies, a "well-known Soviet film director": the Kodak 5247 stock was reportedly stolen, and ended up in the hands of this director, while Tarkovsky unknowingly got a regular Kodak stock in return that was then developed incorrectly. Sharun, however, attributed the problem on "the usual Russian sloppiness", as the Kodak 5247 was newer to Soviet laboratories at the time, who didn't know how to properly process it. The disaster proved to be the final straw for Rerberg, who got the blame for the incident and walked off (or was released from) the film, so Tarkovsky had to shoot most of the film again with a new cinematographer, Aleksandr Knyazhinskiy. This contributed to the film's two-part narrative structure. Allegedly, the newly shot footage strayed even farther away from the source novel 'Roadside Picnic', and had a different look. Asked about this, director Tarkovsky said "no mother gives birth to the same child twice." See more »
Goofs At about 23 minutes, when Stalker, writer and professor are driving in their car they have to hide for a motorcyclist. In the scene the motorcyclist comes from the right. From an opposite angle of view, he still comes from the right, where it should have been from the left. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Distant (2002). See more »
Soundtracks La Marseillaise See more »
Quotes Stalker: May everything come true. May they believe. And may they laugh at their passions. For what they call passion is not really the energy of the soul, but merely friction between the soul and the outside world. But, above all, may they believe in themselves and become as helpless as children. For softness is great and strength is worthless. When a man is born, he is soft and pliable. When he dies, he is strong and hard. When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life. That which has become hard shall not triumph.
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