Stalker
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
Cast
Alisa Freyndlikh
as Stalker's Wife
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
as Stalker
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
as Writer
Nikolay Grinko
as Professor
Natalya Abramova
as Marta
Faime Jurno
as Writer's Companion
Evgeniy Kostin
as Lyuger, Owner of Cafe
Raimo Rendi
as Police Patrol
Vladimir Zamanskiy
as Professor's Telephone Interlocutor (voice) (uncredited)
Reviews
Infra
This movie is like an onion, has multiple layers. To understand it, you have to be very careful and pacient. You have to focus on movie and not doing anything else while you watch it, because if you don't, you won't understand it. http://cinematol.ro/pareri-filme-stalker-calauza-1979/...
CinemaSerf
This really is the cinematic equivalent of "be careful for you wish for". Two characters - a teacher and a professor, seek out a "stalker" who can lead them through the maze of challenges that culminates in an heavily restricted area know as the zone. Why? Rumour has it, that when in that zone you m...
Filipe Manuel Neto
**More style than content.** This was my first contact with the cinematographic work of Andrei Tarkovsky, a Soviet filmmaker who would end his career outside his native country when he fell into disgrace for allegedly spending too much money on films that were not worthy of the expense. A regrett...
