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STALKER
Other Titles: The WISH MACHINE
Release Year: 1979
Production Company: Mosfilm
Country: USSR
Synopsis: The Stalker guides illegal visitors through the overgrown labyrinth of the Zone, an area of alien traps and treasures, containing a room where wishes may come true... 
Cast: Aleksandr KAIDANOVSKY - Stalker
Anatoli SOLONITSYN - Writer
Nikolai GRINKO - Professor
Alisa FREINDLIKH - Stalker's Wife
Natasha ABRAMOVA
F. YURNA
E. KOSTIN
R. RENDI

Credits: Andrei TARKOVSKY - Director
Alexandra DEMIDOVA - Production Supervisor
L. TARKOVSKAYA - Production Manager
T. ALEKSANDROVSKAYA - Production Assistant
V. VDOVINA - Production Assistant
V. MOSENKOV - Production Assistant
A. AGARONYAN - Production Assistant
M. CHUGUNOVA - Assistant Director
E. TSIMBAL - Assistant Director
Arkady STRUGATSKY - Scriptwriter
Boris STRUGATSKY - Scriptwriter
Aleksandr KNYAZHINSKY - Photography
L. KAZMIN - Lighting
T. MASLENNIKOVA - Lighting
N. FUDIM - Camera Operator
S. NAUGOLNIKH - Camera Operator
G. VERKHOVSKY - Camera Operator
S. ZAITSEV - Camera Operator
L. FEIGINOVOI - Editor
T. ALEKSEYEVA - Assistant Editor
V. LOBKOVA - Assistant Editor
Andrei TARKOVSKY - Production Designer
A. MERKULOV - Set Designer
R. SAFIULLIN - Scenic Artist
V. FABRIKOV - Scenic Artist
Eduard ARTEMIEV - Music
E. KHACHATURIAN - Music Director
R. LUKINA - Musical Supervisor
N. FOMINOI - Costumes
V. LVOVA - Make-up
V. SHARUN - Sound

Running Time: 161 Film Length: 14520 ft or 4428 mtrs
Colour Code: Colour & Black/White
Sound System: Sound

References :

  •  Avant-ScŠne du Cin‚ma.n427.December 1993 p.[whole issue] lang.FRE.illus
    Article, detailed credits, script(in French), plus reviews in the French press. 
     Kino.v26.n7.July 1992 p.27-29 lang.POL.illus
    "Theorist in the cinema: problems of adaptations - STALKER An examination of the differences between the book and the film. 
     Film Quarterly.v43.n2.Winter 1989/90 p.28-34 lang.ENG
    Article looking at the dream imagery in Andrei Tarkovsky's films, particularly ZERKALO and STALKER. 
    Time Out.n890.9 Sep 1987 p.8 lang.ENG
    The Strugatsky brothers, who wrote the novel on which the film was based, and the screenplay for the film{ comment on rkovsky's treatment
    of their script. 
    T‚l‚rama.n1846.29 May 1985 p.25 lang.FRE
    Review 
    Sight and Sound.v54.n1.Winter 1984/85 p.Winter 50-54 lang.ENG
    Discussion of STALKER and NOSTALGHIA, and Tarkovsky's search for
    'home'. 
    cran Fantastique.n23.1982 p.19 lang.FRE
    Review 
    Cahiers du Cin‚ma.n330.December 1981 p.41-42 lang.FRE
    Review 
    Positif.n247.October 1981 p.16-22 lang.FRE
    Article on film. 
    Positif.n247.October 1981 p.23-26 lang.FRE
    Interview with director. 
    Cin‚matographe.n72.November 1981 p.60-61 lang.FRE
    Review 
    Cineforum.n203.April 1981 p.46-54 lang.ITA
    Review 
    Listener.v105.n2699.12 Feb 1981 p.224 lang.ENG
    Review by gavin Millar. 
    Monthly Film Bulletin.v48.n564.January 1981 p.10-11 lang.ENG
    Review 
    Sight and Sound.v50.n1.Winter 1980/81 p.Winter 8-9,63-64 lang.ENG
    Review 
    Sight and Sound.v49.n4.Autumn 1980 p.Autumn 240-241 lang.ENG
    Stills. 
    Soviet Film.n10.1980 p.33-35 lang.ENG
    Review 
    Skrien.n97.May/Jun 1980 p.18-23 lang.DUT
    Review 
    Variety.19 Sep 1979 p.19 lang.ENG
    Review 
    T‚l‚rama.n1535.13 Jun 1979 p.85-87 lang.FRE
    Interview. 
    Soviet Film.n4.1977 p.20-21 lang.ENG
    Review 

Links:
The INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE about STALKER (external link)

 

 

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