Stalker (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Run Time: 2 hours, 41 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 18, 2017
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Alice Friendlich, Nikolay Grinko & Anatoliy Solonitsyn | |
Directed by | Andrei Tarkovsky |
Entertainment Reviews:
Stalker traces a mysterious, metaphysical odyssey undertaken by three strangers uncertain of their own desires' boundaries.
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Projected Figures
The film has a hypnotic pull, drawing the viewer deeper and deeper into its enigmatic adventure by crafting a world all its own.
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Los Angeles Times
Its intriguing ideas and starkly moving imagery haunt you for years.
Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- [A] pure masterpiece, with every frame a perfectly composed work of art.
Premiere
It's a film that challenges us to be bored, while refusing to be boring.
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Salon.com
Rating: 5/5 --
A true existential parable: The Zone being a genius dramaturgical blank canvas around which Tarkovsky wraps another of his epic musings on what it means to be human.
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Patrick Nabarro
Yet Stalker is a movie to be watched as many times as physically possible... It really is that astounding.
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Little White Lies
Product Description:
With STALKER, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky returns to the mind-bending, philosophy-tinged science fiction of SOLARIS. The setting is an unnamed country in an unforeseen postapocalyptic future. A meteorite has landed, and its impact has created a mysterious phenomenon known as the Zone, within which resides a sinister room said to grant humanity's deepest desires. Only Stalkers are able to enter the Zone, bringing intrepid citizens to test their strength and desires against the Zone's enigmatic treacheries. The film follows one such Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) as he attempts to bring two characters known as Writer (Anatoli Solonitsyn) and Scientist (Nikolai Grinko) into the Zone. The hapless trio makes a difficult and mud-drenched journey, dodging military guards and invisible traps and enduring extreme psychological strain. While Tarkovsky avoids any direct political reading of STALKER, the film's allegorical structure presents a powerful and disturbing metaphor for humanity's loss of and subsequent quest for faith. The Stalker's struggle to rescue himself and his family while guiding those more wretched than himself creates a physical and metaphysical drama that leaves the viewer breathless. Blending visual, narrative, and cinematic conventions to portray the fractured logic of the Zone, Tarkovsky conjures a universe of despair and desire in which science, rationalism, and technology must face off against love, humanism, and faith.
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- Sales Rank: 11,239
- UPC: 715515201018
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