Stalker
1979 / 163min / DCP
DIRECTOR: ANDREI TARKOVSKY
CAST: ALISA FREYNDLIKH, ALISA FREYNDLIKH, ALISA FREYNDLIKH, ALISA FREYNDLIKH, ALEKSANDR KAYDANOVSKIY, ALEKSANDR KAYDANOVSKIY, ALEKSANDR KAYDANOVSKIY, ALEKSANDR KAYDANOVSKIY, ANATOLIY SOLONITSYN, ANATOLIY SOLONITSYN, ANATOLIY SOLONITSYN, ANATOLIY SOLONITSYN
When reference is made in Twin Peaks: The Return to “The Zone,” it seems an awful lot like a homage to Tarkovsky’s stunning, haunted sepia-toned sci-fi masterpiece, in which a scientist and a writer living in a broken-down totalitarian dystopia recruit the help of a “Stalker”—a kind of post-apocalyptic Sherpa—to guide them on a voyage of self-discovery, passing through the bleak, otherworldly Zone, hoping to discover therein a haven that will fulfill their secret desires.