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Stalker

Name: Stalker
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Released: 1979-05-25

1979 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

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Released: May 25, 1979
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2.Stated in IMDbimdb.com/title/tt0079944/releaseinfoRetrieved 2022-04-28
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Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/Retrieved 2016-05-09
2.bbfc.co.uk/releases/stalker-1970Retrieved 2016-05-09
3.ofdb.de/film/2746,StalkerRetrieved 2016-05-09
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Screenwriter: Andrei Tarkovsky
, Arkady Strugatsky
, Boris Strugatsky
Cast: Anatoly Solonitsyn
, Alisa Freindlich
, Alexander Kaidanovsky
, Nikolai Grinko
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1.bbfc.co.uk/releases/stalker-1970Retrieved 2016-05-09
2.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=702.htmlRetrieved 2016-05-09
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Runtime: 163 min
Genre: science fiction film
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/Retrieved 2016-05-09
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, art film
, drama film
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Country of origin: Soviet Union
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1.Stated in Lexicon of international filmsRetrieved 2020-10-09
2.Stated in IMDbRetrieved 2020-10-09
3.Stated in DEFA film databaseRetrieved 2020-10-09
4.Stated in BFI Film & TV DatabaseRetrieved 2020-10-09
5.Stated in russiancinema.ruRetrieved 2020-10-09
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Original language: Russian

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Stalker is a 1979 Soviet post-apocalyptic drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the "Stalker", who guides his two clients—a melancholic writer and a professor —through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the "Zone", where supposedly exists a room which grants a person's innermost desires. The film combines elements of science fiction and fantasy with dramatic, philosophical, and psychological themes.

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Title: Сталкер hungarian-style transcription: Sztalker
Based on: Roadside Picnic
Director of photography: Alexander Knyazhinsky
Leonid Kalashnikov
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Georgy Rerberg
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Production designer: Andrei Tarkovsky
Filming location: Tallinn
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Color: color
black-and-white
FSK film rating: FSK 12
After a work by: Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Kijkwijzer rating: 12 content descriptor: Coarse language, Fear
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2.kijkwijzer.nl/films/stalker/Retrieved 2024-11-07
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Medierådet rating: For ages 15 and up
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1.Stated in Danish Film Database
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CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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1.Stated in film distribution certificate
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Distribution format: video on demand
Assessment: Bechdel test assessment outcome: fails · criterion used: considering named characters only
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1.Stated in Bechdel Test Movie ListRetrieved 2017-12-10
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Aspect ratio (W:H): Academy ratio
Review score: 85/100(February 3, 2026) review score by: Metacritic · number of reviews/ratings: 17 critic review
100%(November 29, 2022) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 42
8.6/10(October 5, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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1.Stated in Rotten Tomatoes“Stalker”Retrieved 2021-10-05
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Named after: stalker
Different from: Stalker criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items
Filmiroda rating: Category II rating certificate id: F/0318/J
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RARS rating: 12+
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1.Stated in Kinopoisk
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