Stalker (1979)
97%RT Audience Score: 93%
Awards & Nominations: NA
Stalker is a complex, oblique parable that draws unforgettable images and philosophical musings from its sci-fi/thriller setting.
Stalker is like a mind-bending rollercoaster ride that takes you on a journey through a sci-fi/thriller world filled with unforgettable images and deep philosophical musings. It’s like trying to solve a Rubik’s cube while riding a unicycle – challenging, but totally worth it. This movie will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about reality and the human condition. It’s like a puzzle that you can’t quite solve, but you keep coming back to it because it’s just so damn intriguing. If you’re looking for a movie that will make you think and keep you on the edge of your seat, Stalker is definitely worth checking out.
Production Company(ies)
Mosfilm Vtoroe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
Tallinn, Estonia
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
Year of Release
1980
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Color:Color
Black and White -
Sound mix:Mono
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Aspect ratio:1.37 : 1
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):Russian
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Oct 20, 1982 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 19, 2001
Genre(s)
Adventure
Keyword(s)
Worldwide gross: $303,815
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $1,141,840
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,563
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 124,519
US/Canada gross: $292,049
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $1,097,619
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,161
US/Canada opening weekend: $11,537
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $43,360
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,256
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): RUR 6,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Aleksandr Kajdanovsky – Stalker
Nikolay Grinko – Professor
Anatoliy Solonitsyn – Pisatel
Alisa Freyndlikh – Zhena Stalkera
Natalya Abramova – Marta
Faime Jurno – Sobesednitsa Pisatelya
Director(s)
Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer(s)
Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy, Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy
Producer(s)
Aleksandra Demidova
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
All Critics (42) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (42)
It is masterfully done, contains some haunting images, and has a difficult-to-pinpoint mesmerism in the way it progresses. Once it gets you (which, for some, may never happen), it will hold you like a fly trapped in amber.
April 28, 2019 | Rating: 3/4
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
TOP CRITIC
It’s a film that challenges us to be bored, while refusing to be boring.
February 7, 2019
John Semley
Salon.com
TOP CRITIC
Yet Stalker is a movie to be watched as many times as physically possible… It really is that astounding.
February 7, 2019
David Jenkins
Little White Lies
TOP CRITIC
There are no flying saucers in the great Russian director’s haunting tale of a journey into the depths of a postapocalyptic landscape, but it offers visual splendor, as well as mysteries, portents and miracles.
February 14, 2018
Kristin M. Jones
Wall Street Journal
TOP CRITIC
The film has a hypnotic pull, drawing the viewer deeper and deeper into its enigmatic adventure by crafting a world all its own.
May 18, 2017
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
TOP CRITIC
The pursuit of happiness takes on a meandering, philosophical and richly visual form in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
October 29, 2015 | Rating: 4/5
Kate Muir
Times (UK)
TOP CRITIC
The opening is one of the most gripping and visionary moments I have ever seen in the cinema.
May 4, 2022
Emmanuel Carrère
Positif
No one tops Tarkovsky’s ability for immersion, and the metaphysical enigma of Stalker is one of cinema’s most impressive achievements.
September 8, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5
Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
There is no denying Tarkovsky’s unwavering vision to create something so unique and transcendental. {Full review in Spanish]
August 21, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
Fico Cangiano
CineXpress Podcast
The alternating use of matted and color palettes and frame within frame, shots by Tarkovsky and his trio of cinematographers, is an aesthetic wonderment in its own right.
August 7, 2020 | Rating: 4/4
Tom Meek
Cambridge Day
Profoundly and fundamentally about the mood it creates and the atmosphere it evokes.
May 22, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
Tim Brayton
Alternate Ending
Like something out of a dream, guiding us through a haunted, desolate landscape that eerily presages the Chernobyl disaster that would occur seven years later.
June 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/4
Mattie Lucas
From the Front Row…
Plot
There is no storyline provided on the webpage, so no brief one or two sentence storyline can be written.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
NA
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