A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires.

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The Stalker is a philosophical science fiction film by Andrei Tarkovsky that follows a mysterious guide leading two men through a surreal, forbidden Zone rumored to fulfill their innermost desires.

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instanceOf film
philosophical film
science fiction film
award Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes (special mention, 1980)
basedOn Roadside Picnic
basedOnWorkBy Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky
colorProcess combination of sepia and color sequences
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
director Andrei Tarkovsky
distributor Mosfilm
editor Lyudmila Feiginova
filmingLocation Estonia
genre drama
philosophical film
science fiction
hasCultFollowing true
influenced Annihilation (film)
linked to: Annihilation

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series
linked to: Stalker
mainCharacter the Professor
the Stalker
linked to: Stalker

the Writer
medium feature film
musicBy Eduard Artemyev NERFINISHED
notableFor long tracking shots
philosophical dialogue
slow contemplative pacing
originalLanguage Russian
plotSummary A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires.
producer Aleksandra Demidova
releaseYear 1979
runtimeMinutes 163
screenwriter Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
setting the Zone
linked to: The Zone

unnamed industrial region
theme desire
ethics of wish fulfillment
faith
hope and despair
the nature of reality

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Stalker plotSummary A guide known as the Stalker leads a writer and a professor into a forbidden Zone said to grant one’s deepest desires.