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Watch: Сталкер 1979 123movies, Full Movie Online – In a small, unnamed country there’s an area called the Zone. It’s an unusual area, and within its a place known as the Room, where it’s believed wishes are granted. The government declared The Zone a no-go area and have sealed it off. This hasn’t stopped people from entering the Zone. A writer, and a professor, want to reach the Zone. Their guide – a man known as a stalker, has a special relation with the Zone..
Plot: Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
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Ratings:

	8.1/10 Votes: 134,314
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Reviews:

This really is the cinematic equivalent of “be careful for you wish for”. Two characters – a teacher and a professor, seek out a “stalker” who can lead them through the maze of challenges that culminates in an heavily restricted area know as the zone. Why? Rumour has it, that when in that zone you may make wishes that will immediately come true. What is this place? Is it real, imaginary, alien, all of these – or it is all just a cerebral hallucination of a place that, like El Dorado, we imagine to be where all of our problems can go away, be solved, eradicated. It is loosely based on the Strugatsky brothers early seventies sci-fi novel “Roadside Picnic” but it’s fair to say that Andrei Tarkovsky opens up the more linear aspects of their story leaving us with a much less defined and more intangible series of threads as these men undergo significant travails to get to a place – that frequently resembles what I imagine Chernobyl to have look like after it exploded. As with so many aspects of human aspiration, the narrative is all about what I would call the chase – the journey or the means – without the characters ever really knowing what it is they will truly want if they do actually achieve their goal. Again, the director provides us with lots of bits of this mischievous, sometimes perilous and thought-provoking Rubik’s cube – but it is incomplete. We know it is always going to be. We, the audience, have to bring a bit of ourselves to this particular party. There is a denouement – three men in a room. One (Nikolai Grinko) with a hefty nuclear bomb that he believes may offer a solution; another (Anatoly Solonitsyn) who’s darkest id well outmanoeuvres his ostensibly well meaning reasons for being there and of course the stalker himself (Alexander Kaidanovsky). This production is deliberately, and effectively slowly paced. The dialogue can be intense, their frustrations and dreams well encapsulated; but it can also be sparing – there are plenty of periods of protracted silences from them all. Accompanied by an eerily complimentary score from Eduard Artemyev, we are left with an experience rather than just a film. I saw it on a big screen, and if you can I’d recommend that. It helps you to stay focused on the complex and quirky plot whilst bringing out the finely crafted bleakness, and hope, of the photography.

This movie is like an onion, has multiple layers. To understand it, you have to be very careful and pacient. You have to focus on movie and not doing anything else while you watch it, because if you don’t, you won’t understand it.

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Imagine listening to a cheap philosophical audio-book while walking through an exhibition of art photography with depressive motifs …
This cult achievement of Andrei Tarkovsky is generally accepted as one of the masterpieces of Russian cinematography. When I had the opportunity to see it on the big screen, I couldn’t miss it. Fortunately, the ticket was extremely cheap.

“Stalker” is based on the SF novel “Roadside Picnic” by the Strugatskiy brothers, who adapted it into the script themselves. Although its genre classification is the same as that of the novel, “Stalker” is a philosophical and psychological drama, whose SF premise is only mentioned, and I believe that it is no more than a mere illusion in the minds of the protagonists, so the SF determinant leads to completely wrong expectations.

The film opens with a very slow but mesmerizingly atmospheric and superbly shot scene, each frame of which is an art photograph. Already in those first moments, I saw myself rating it a ten, but from there on the film only goes downhill.

To be clear, the rest of the film doesn’t visually lag behind that first scene, but too long shots that show totally uninteresting people who do more or less nothing, no matter how beautifully shot, are not enough to hold my attention for almost three hours. If I wanted to enjoy top photography, I would go to an exhibition and not to the cinema. Of those three hours, perhaps a third is filled with plot, which again is largely reduced to monologues, while nothing really happens. Essentially, this looks more like a monodrama than a movie.

In the center of events is an area called the Zone, in which there is a room that, for those who get it alive, fulfills the greatest wish. The basic message of the film is: “Be careful what you wish for it might come true”, because the Room does not fulfill the wish that we consciously ask for, but the essential one, hidden in the depths of man.

This is an interesting premise from which you will not see anything in the film. We don’t know for sure whether the Zone is special in any way at all, nor do any of the protagonists use the Room. The premise is only there to give us the background to study the personalities of the people who headed to the zone and their guide, Stalker.

The plot itself can be told in a few sentences, while the whole story is reduced to a philosophical monologue by the author through the mouths of three protagonists. There are no original philosophical ideas or interesting views on life. Just a bunch of true, but long-worn philosophical and psychological phrases, pretentiously packaged so that they seem more profound and significant than they really are.

General impression – beautifully filmed but pretentious and hard to watch, without the essential strength to justify the effort. Just because of the technical qualities and the atmosphere, I can’t go below

7/10

“The photography, in this case, is like the wrapping of an empty present box.” – trans_mauro.

It is high art – pause anytime during viewing and enjoy
For me, it’s, quite simply, the best film ever made; Don’t you find you can pause any Tarkovsky film at any moment and the art on your screen is good enough to have as a poster on your wall for life ? With Stalker it is doubly true. The first time I experienced the tunnel scene my heart nearly stopped. This was in 1984 I watched the TV listings in England for 20 years waiting for a repeat – finally buying the DVD in 2004, though I couldn’t really afford it. Proof that a SCI-FI film does not need tons of effects to work. In a science fiction film book I read years ago they rated Stalker as the only film ever made deserving full marks in all 3 sections. Imagine if Tarkovsky had made a film of one of PKD’s novels ?! OK, I’m dreaming ?! We are lucky to have been blessed by his genius. The good die young. All the best, Rich (English, 38 yrs, Paris)

Other Information:

Original Language ru
Runtime 2 hr 42 min (162 min)
Budget 120000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Sci-Fi
Director Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Country Soviet Union
Awards 2 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Kinor-35C, Zeiss Super Speed and Cooke Varotal Lenses, Mitchell NC, Zeiss Super Speed and Cooke Varotal Lenses
Laboratory Mosfilm, Moscow, Soviet Union (color)
Film Length 4,424 m (Italy), 4,430 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5247)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP), 35 mm