Stalker (1979) (PG)
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Tickets: Adult £6 | Cons & U25’s £5
Ranked #14 in the Greatest Films of All Time directors’ poll, Tarkovsky’s mesmeric masterpiece influenced Spielberg, Lynch, and a generation of filmmakers. The Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) leads two disillusioned intellectuals – the Writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and the Professor (Nikolai Grinko) – into the forbidden Zone, a sooty, oily post-apocalyptic landscape that eerily presages Chernobyl, on a quest to have their deepest wishes realised within a mystical destination known as “the Room”. Stalker is a visually unforgettable, hauntingly philosophical sci-fi epic, likened by Guardian critic Philip French to “The Wizard of Oz adapted by a disciple of Dostoevsky and Kafka”.
This film is subtitled.
DIRECTOR | Andrei Tarkovsky
STARS | Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy and Anatoliy Solonitsyn
SOURCE TEXT | Roaside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsk
SCREENWRITER | Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy and Anatoliy Solonitsyn
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Reviews
“Very few films, in the last however-many years, have done more to expand the possibilities of what a film is, what time is in film, than Stalker”
“A profound exploration of spiritual desolation and the power of love in a damaged world, it’s a film whose poetic vision seems more valuable than ever”