Shadowcat on 6/8/2017 at 12:29
So I was able to watch this film for the first time on the big screen :)
I didn't love it, but it's very striking and thought-provoking; raising many questions and providing few answers. I do believe I'm going to be thinking about it for some time to come.
F. J. Rothchild III on 6/3/2019 at 20:56
I love the Tarkovsky film. Here's a video I made on the film, the book it's based on, and the games if anyone's interested.
[video=youtube;lDG_NloDjkw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDG_NloDjkw[/video]
froghawk on 7/3/2019 at 14:46
I actually vastly prefer this film to the games. Too bad it basically killed everyone who worked on it since the set locations gave them cancer :(
Dia on 8/3/2019 at 13:09
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... Too bad it basically killed everyone who worked on it since the set locations gave them cancer :(
I wondered about that, considering the film was shot pre-Chernobyl meltdown. Then I found this little excerpt (Wikipedia) about Tarkovsky and several of the cast & crew:
'Several people involved in the film production, including Tarkovsky, died from causes that some crew members attributed to the film's long shooting schedule in toxic locations. Sound designer Vladimir Sharun recalled:[11]
We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Jägala with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris.'