Stalker (DVD, 2002)

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The "Stalker" DVD is a UK release of the iconic sci-fi movie directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Starring Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, and Alexander Kaidanovsky, the film is presented in PAL format with an aspect ratio of 4:3 Full Frame. The DVD includes subtitles in various languages such as Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish, among others. It also features bonus content like a stills gallery, cast and crew biographies, and interviews with the director of photography and production designer, offering fans a deeper insight into the making of this classic film.

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Based on the novel 'Roadside Picnic' which centres around a number of zones created by visiting extra-terrestrials. These zones hold special powers; they can grant wishes or set traps.

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ProducerAlexandra Demidova
EAN5021866215303
eBay Product ID (ePID)3951174

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ActorAlexander Kaidanovsky, Nikolai Grinko, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Alissa Freindlich
Film/TV TitleStalker
DirectorAndrei Tarkovsky
LanguageRussian
Subtitle LanguageChinese\Dutch\English\French\German\Hebrew\Italian\Japanese\Portuguese\Russian\Spanish\Swedish
Run Time155 Mins
Aspect Ratio4:3 Full Frame
Release Year2002
FormatDVD
FeaturesStills Gallery\Cast And Crew Biographies\Cast And Crew Filmographies\Interview With The Director Of Photography\Interview With The Production Designer\Extract From Tarkovskys Diploma Film The Steamroller And The Violin, With Subtitles
GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General

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Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureRussia
ComposerEduard Artemyev
Production DesignerAndrei Tarkovsky
Additional InformationWith STALKER, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky returns to the mind-bending, philosophy-tinged science fiction of SOLARIS. The setting is an unnamed country in an unforeseen postapocalyptic future. A meteorite has landed, and its impact has created a mysterious phenomenon known as the Zone, within which resides a sinister room said to grant humanity's deepest desires. Only Stalkers are able to enter the Zone, bringing intrepid citizens to test their strength and desires against the Zone's enigmatic treacheries. The film follows one such Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) as he attempts to bring two characters known as Writer (Anatoli Solonitsyn) and Scientist (Nikolai Grinko) into the Zone. The hapless trio makes a difficult and mud-drenched journey, dodging military guards and invisible traps and enduring extreme psychological strain. While Tarkovsky avoids any direct political reading of STALKER, the film's allegorical structure presents a powerful and disturbing metaphor for humanity's loss of and subsequent quest for faith. The Stalker's struggle to rescue himself and his family while guiding those more wretched than himself creates a physical and metaphysical drama that leaves the viewer breathless. Blending visual, narrative, and cinematic conventions to portray the fractured logic of the Zone, Tarkovsky conjures a universe of despair and desire in which science, rationalism, and technology must face off against love, humanism, and faith.
ReviewsPremiere - [A] pure masterpiece, with every frame a perfectly composed work of art, Sight and Sound - ...A preternaturally vivid style rendered Dosteyevskyan by monochrome photography whose raspingly harsh textures suggest some grainy newsreel footage of the future..., Uncut - Its intriguing ideas and starkly moving imagery haunt you for years
ScreenwriterAndrei Tarkovsky, Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
AuthorBoris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Movie/TV TitleStalker
Director of PhotographyAlexander Knyazhinsky

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  • ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

    it's important to me that everyone thinks I'm intelligent, knowledgeable and sophisticated, so what can I say about this film that will impress people? Well it's directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. He's an auteur, that means he's really good. And this film is a classic. Everyone knows that. It's a complex oblique parable. It's an endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness. It's.....erm....... No, it's no good, I have to be honest. This film is about a man leading two other men to a place where their wishes will come true. They arrive to find nothing there and then they go home. And that's it. But this film lasts two and a half hours, isn't there more to it than that? No there isn't. It's stupefyingly boring. It's a waste of celluloid, or whatever it's made out of. Dammit, now no-one's going to believe I'm an intellectual. But 'stupefyingly' is a big word isn't it?

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  • A must watch well received

    The DVD arrived timely, very well wrapped up and of course, the film itself is a classic. So, super thumbs up

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  • Stalker - a visual meditation

    It is Andrei Tarkovsky's cinematic poem pre dating but anticipating Chernobyl. Beautiful long takes. A visual meditation.

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  • Tarkovsky at his best

    An engaging and gentle yet sinister portrayal of hope in adversity.

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