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Russian science fiction films (Film Guide): Soviet science fiction films, Stalker, Solaris, The Inhabited Island, Guest from the Future, Kin-dza-dza!,
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Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: Soviet science fiction films, Stalker, Solaris, The Inhabited Island, Guest from the Future, Kin-dza-dza!, Star Wars: Storm in the Glass, Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future, The Mystery of the Third Planet, First on the Moon, The Adventures of the Elektronic, Test pilota Pirxa, Alice's Birthday, Paragraph 78, Per Aspera Ad Astra, Polygon, The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin, Kosmicheskiy reys, Amphibian Man, Heart of a Dog, Moscow-Cassiopeia, Aelita, Contact, Failure of Engineer Garin, The Sannikov Land, Dead Man's Letters, Mysterious Island, Teens in the Universe, The Andromeda Nebula, New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Battle Beyond the Sun, Aerograd, The Witches Cave. Excerpt: Stalker (Russian: ) is a 1979 science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, with a screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, loosely based on their novel Roadside Picnic. It depicts an expedition led by the Stalker (guide) to bring his two clients to a site known as the Zone, which has the supposed potential to fulfil a person's innermost desires. The title of the film, which is the same in Russian and English, is derived from the English word to stalk in the long-standing meaning of approaching furtively, much like a hunter. In the film a stalker is a professional guide to the zone, someone who crosses the border into the forbidden zone with a specific goal. The sparseness of exposition leads to ambiguity as to the nature of The Zone. The setting of the film is a tiny town on the outskirts of the Zone, a wilderness area which has been cordoned off by the government. The film's main character, the Stalker, works as a guide to bring people in and out of the Zone, to "the Room", which is said to grant the deepest, innermost wishes of anyone who steps inside. Residual effects of an undefined previous occurrence have transformed an otherwise mundane rural area scattered with ruined buildings into an area where the normal laws of physics no longer apply. The film begins, in sepia, with the Stalker in his home with his wife and daughter. His wife emotionally urges him not to leave her again to go into the Zone because of the legal consequences, but he ignores her pleas. The Stalker goes to a bar, where he meets the Writer and the Professor, who will be his clients on his next trip into the Zone. The Writer and the Professor are never identified by name ¿ the Stalker prefers to refer to them in this way. The three of them evade the military blockade that guards the Zone using a Land-Rover ¿ attracting gunfire from the guards as they go ¿ and then ride into the heart of the Zone on a railway work car. The camera follows their passage from urban setting to rura |
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