Stalker (1979 film)

Stalker Russian IPAstlkr is a 1979 science fiction art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, with its screenplay written by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. Loosely based on the novel Roadside Picnic, the film features a mixture of elements from the science fiction genre with dramatic philosophical and psychological themes.

The Stalker Alexander Kaidanovsky works in some unclear area in the indefinite future as a guide who leads people through the Zone, a vicinity in which the normal laws of reality no longer fully apply. The Zone contains a place called the Room, said to grant the wishes of anyone who steps inside. The area containing the Zone is sealed off by the government and great hazards exist within it. At home with his wife and daughter, the Stalkers wife Alisa Freindlich begs him not to go into the Zone but he ignores her pleas. In a rundown bar, the Stalker meets his next clients for a trip into the Zone. The Writer Anatoly Solonitsyn and the Professor Nikolai Grinko agree to put their fate into the hands of the Stalker. Their specific names do not come up as they all agree to refer to each other pseudoanonymously by just their professions.The three of them evade the military blockade that guards the Zone, attracting gunfire from the guards as they go yet all surviving. They then ride into the heart of the Zone on a railway work car. The Stalker tells his clients they must do exactly as he says to survive the dangers which lie ahead, and he details more about the Zone as said dangers are invisible. The Stalker tests for traps by actions such as throwing metal nuts tied to strips of cloth ahead of them. The three men must deal with the fact that the complicated path that they must take cannot be specifically seen or heard but can only be sensed. ........

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