STALKER BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY

Stalker is a Science fiction movie where the protagonist named Stalker guides people in bringing in and out of the zone which is place where anyone's secret and innermost desires are granted. The zone is guarded by soldiers. The film begins with a sepia color in all its frames. When the camera moves from urban to rural setting and from darkness to light the movie at that point also switches to color. The film mainly focuses on the trip to that apparently dangerous zone and the philosophical discussions by the characters for willing to enter the room.

The music of the movie is composed by Eduard Artemyev and the cinematography is done by Alexander Knyazhinsky. Somewhat the film is based on a novel called Roadside Picnic although there is nothing common in the film with the movie except the names - Stalker and the Zone.



Key casts are Alexander Kaidanovsky as the Stalker, Alisa Freindlich as his wife and others.

10 reasons you should watch Stalker:

1. Stalker is a science fiction film directed by famous director Andrei Tarkovsky.
2. Cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky has relied on long takes, slow and subtle movement of the camera and rejected the typical use of montage.
3. In the film music is not only a parallel illusion of the film's visual image but much more than it.
4. With Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky has drawn a individual to the inner world and is able to transform the mere physical journey into his inner journey.
5. Stalker can be ranked under top 100 foreign movies.
6. The excellent and magical soundtrack of the Russian film leaves the audience in a trance where they are unable to understand whether the sound is real or an illusion.
7. Several homage and tributes are paid to the movie Stalker.
8. The movie has won several prestigious awards.
9. Stalker is one of the finest science fiction movies and one of the top Russian language movies by Andrei Tarkovsky.
10. Stalker is a must watch for all cinema lovers.

I also recommend you to watch these two movies:

Avatar - In this movie Jake, a paraplegic war veteran is taken to another planet called the Pandora which has its own language and culture.

E.T. - In this movie a little extra-terrestrial is left behind on the earth and he ends up befriending with a young boy and his brother and sister in the due course.

Cannes Film Festival
Year Result Award
1980 Won Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Andrei Tarkovsky
This is a special award.
Fantasporto
Year Result Award
1983 Won Audience Jury Award - Special Mention
Andrei Tarkovsky
Nominated International Fantasy Film Award
Best Film
Andrei Tarkovsky

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He was born April 4, 1932-December 29, 1986.He was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director.The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei M. Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK.He directed the first five of his seven feature films in the Soviet Union; his last two films were produced in Italy and Sweden, respectively.Tarkovsky's teacher and mentor was Mikhail Romm, who taught many film students who would later become influential film directors.Tarkovsky's first feature film was Ivan's Childhood in 1962.The last film Tarkovsky completed in the Soviet Union was Stalker, inspired by the novel Roadside Picnic by the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.A controversy emerged in Russia in the early 1990s when it was alleged that Tarkovsky did not die of natural causes, but was assassinated by the KGB.

***Writer:
Offret (1986) (screenplay)
Nostalghia (1983) (screenplay) (as Andrey Tarkovsky)
Tempo di viaggio (1983) (TV) (writer)
Stalker (1979) (screenplay) (uncredited)
Beregis, zmey! (1979) (writer)
Zerkalo (1975) (writer)
Lyutyy (1974) (uncredited)
Hndzan (1974) (uncredited)
Solyaris (1972) (screenplay)
Konets atamana (1970) (uncredited)
Sergey Lazo (1968) (uncredited)
Andrey Rublyov (1966) (writer)
Ivanovo detstvo (1962) (uncredited)
Katok i skripka (1961) (writer)
Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet (1959) (writer) (as A. Tarkovsky)
Ubiytsy (1958) (screenplay) (as A. Tarkovsky)

***Director:
Offret (1986) (as Andrei Tarkovskij)
Nostalghia (1983) (as Andrey Tarkovsky)
Tempo di viaggio (1983) (TV)
Stalker (1979)
Zerkalo (1975)
Solyaris (1972)
Andrey Rublyov (1966)
Ivanovo detstvo (1962)
Katok i skripka (1961)
Segodnya uvolneniya ne budet (1959) (as A. Tarkovsky)
Ubiytsy (1958) (as A. Tarkovsky)