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Mosfilm
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
Featuring: Alisa Freindlikh, Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, Natasha Abramova
Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.
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Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
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Russian 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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English
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1
Discs:
2 Discs |
DVD-9
Supplements
- New interview with Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
- Interview from 2002 with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky
- Interview from 2002 with set designer Rashit Safiullin
- Interview from 2002 with composer Eduard Artemyev
- An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu
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