# Stalker (1979)

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**Original title**: *Сталкер*
**Runtime**: 162 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Drama
**Directed by**: Andrei Tarkovsky
**Written by**: Andrei Tarkovsky, Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy
**Starring**: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Mykola Hrynko, Natalya Abramova, Faime Jurno

> *There's no need to speak. You must only...concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A gray industrial landscape, late afternoon, a distant hum of helicopters. Barbed wire and overgrown grass, a guide leads two men into the heart of the anomaly. Tarkovsky probes the intersection of science and mysticism.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, cerebral, dread, slow-burn

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.0/10 (155355 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 100% · Metacritic 85/100

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