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Synopsis
Stalker is a 1979 Soviet science fantasy 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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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- The Wordless StretchMotifLong dialogue-free passages of water, wind and a camera that will not hurry: the journey is measured in duration, and the duration is the meaning.
- Water That RisesMotifThe Zone's rooms stand ankle-deep and never stop dripping; Tarkovsky lets water hold the frame for minutes at a time, and it is never weather.
