Люблю глаза твои, мой друг, С игрой иx пламенно-чудесной, Когда иx приподымешь вдруг И, словно молнией небесной, Окинешь бегло целый круг... Но есть сильней очарованья: Глаза, потупленные ниц В минуты страстного лобзанья, И сквозь опущенныx ресниц Угрюмый, тусклый огнь желанья. Ф.И.Тютчев
I saw this for the first time a couple of months ago and I can't get it out of my head. Incredible artistry. I highly recommend this to anyone who really appreciates what film can accomplish.
maybe it's only partially related but , for the next silent hill , the devs should use this movie as inspiration instead of....all the cheap thrillers they use as mind fodder.
This film is shot in Estonia. I have been to those places. The room and the house is demolished, but some places are still standing. The entry of the zone is in Tallinn city centre.
Three man taking dangers and risk their lives to reach a point where their dreams can become true. They seek for something but don´t know hat it is, and when they get close to it they change their minds. They walk out of there having not reached their desires. In this scene the child who is disabled and is innocent and was never in the zone shows unbelievable powers of his own. For me it means that you may look for wonders all your life and never find them, while the wonders are your children
@zagyex the trully great films, leave you to think about what it means! That is real Art... as the saying goes, there are more questions than answers! sometimes your desires/dreams are right in front of you, but you cannot see them because your mind isn"t open!
ah the mystery. note the gun and vials in the water are the gun and bomb parts that will be tossed into the water, LATER! note that "crown of thorns" on his head.
Profound mysteries here, folks.
Suppose soon that the Room seeks YOU out? Not that you are Drawn to find it, but that *it comes to you*, then like it or not, all your inner wishes come true, ALL of them, even those ones!
[the wheat and the tares must grow together, before the Harvest!]
My friend is watching this film with subtitles. I was wondering how can this poem by translated in english? Is it possible? If anyone knows an english translation please send me a link!
i don't know which translation is in english subtitles, but a very good translation of this poem by Tyutchev is the lyrics of Bjork's Dull Flame of Desire.
@wonderlandavenue "I love your dear eyes, my friend / With their play so bright and wondrous / When you promptly rise them, and / Like with a lightning in the wildness / Embrace at once the whole land. / But there's more fabulous attraction: / The eyes directed to the floor / During the crazy osculation, / And through the lashes, set before, / The dusk and gloomy flame of passion
You can´t understand these final scene using analytical reasoning, becouse Tarkovsky construct his work with a coating of spiritual language. In my opinion these frames evokes the uncontrollable mistery, in a spiritual meaning
In my opinion this scene means that the girl are a manifestation of the zone. The little girl can observe all in the zone and can manipulate her with telekinesis. During the stalker's sleep scene, a voice recites bible. In this scene you understand that the voice is that of the girl.
Anyone who tries to interpret this scene in his own way fails due to its extremely subjective naure. That!s the beauty of Tarkovsky, he made his film end in a fashion that prevented anyone from truly understand it subjectively, yet anyone who watched the movie undersstood t, the humanitarian message became the ultimate humanitarian bridge.
An English translation of Fedor Tyutchev "I Love Your Dear Eyes..." (1831-1836): "I love your dear eyes, my friend / With their play so bright and wondrous / When you promptly rise them, and / Like with a lightning in the wildness / Embrace at once the whole land. / But there's more fabulous attraction: / The eyes directed to the floor / During the crazy osculation, / And through the lashes, set before, / The dusk and gloomy flame of passion." Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, October, 2000
I never knew a director so concerned about the importance of the sound than Tarkovsky... Maybe Kubrick. The equilibrium on the details between sound and image are perfect. If you're renting or buying a Tarkovsky movie and it sounds like shit, don't even botter, you're missing half of the movie.
@aajdjr Actually you need to see the whole movie. It's an allegory for Christ, christianity and mysticism. This scene shows that, despite the fact that Stalker ended up a human wreckage, his young daughter (the girl in this scene) is able to look beyond the bleak presence of reality, and thus is a hope for mankind itself. There are three glasses on the table. Three is a symbolic number in Christianity (holy Trinity etc). If you look carefully, there is wine in one of them, anothr chr. symbol
@kostasxrysogelos And the musical piece playing in the very end is "Ode to Joy", meaning that the young ones can change things, and therefore whe should be jouful for that. Finally, I think that the fact she is a girl and not a boy is not coincidental. In the New Testament it was the women who were mostly faithful to Christ. That's why Stalker himself seems to undergo an inner fight to convince others about the Zone, whereas his daughter believes without even visiting the Zone. Hoped I helped :)
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THE 3 GLASSES REPRESENT THE 3 MEN WHO WENT TO THE ZONE. 2 REMAINED ON THE TABLE, AND THE OTHER FELL. BUT IT DID NOT BREAK. GUESS WHOS THE ONE THAT FELL?
I love your eyes, my friend Their splendid sparkling fire When suddenly you raise them so To cast a swift embracing glance Like lightning flashing in the sky But there is a charm that is greater still When my love’s eyes are lowered When all is fired by passion’s kiss And through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire.
crazy chance discovery, but this is sampled at the end of "Requiem For Dying Mothers 2" by Stars Of The Lid from the album Tired Sounds. something about that train whistle just triggered some deep acoustic memory. I guess that's how much this film and that album have affected me.
More like nobody will make a film like this one. Tarkovsky and most Americans directors use cinema for completely different reasons and neither one is "better" than the other. If someone chooses to watch Avatar over Stalker what does it matter to you? Some directors like to entertain, some like to be philosophical. Some viewers like the be entertained, some like the think (and only one type of viewer thinks they're smarter than the other), watch what you want to watch and stop fighting.
@ppitm I don't think there's ever proof that the Stalker, or even the writer/professor entered the room.
There could also be the possibility that the Stalker himself entered the room, and his child may be the result of the exposure (notice how scenes with the child are the only scenes outside of the Zone in colour)
Tarkovsky's movie doesn't really give answer, nor do I think it should.
It's a combination of Roadside Picnc, the films, and the 1985 Chernobyl meltdown. Even the Monolith echoes Kubrick's 2001 film.
The Stalker film featured at least one anomaly known as Meat grinder, as well as bolt throwing, and scenes of technology and ruins of civilization overrun by nature. So, yes, the influence is there.
"I love your eyes, my dear Their splendid sparkling fire When suddenly you raise them so To cast a swift embracing glance Like lightning flashing in the sky But there's a charm that is greater still When my love's eyes are lowered When all is fired by passion's kiss And through the downcast lashes I see the dull flame of desire" by Fyodor Tyutchev ... a russian poet. Also the lyrics from Björk's song "The Dull Flame of Desire" (released on her 2007 album Volta)
this movie was great, but After playing the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, I can't help but laugh and think of this scene as the first of the "Controller" mutants.
i once watched a russian film it was kind of like stalker all i remember is these guys walking around a forest with a geiger counter and then they went down a hole. There was a girl who was sick and needed massages or something. I think her dad was looking for a cure for her. It was really eery film if anyone knows whats its called please let me know :)
It's a movie called Stalker(1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky loosely based on the book "Roadside Picnic". The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is loosely based on this movie.
no its not stalker its kind of the same but there is a girl. It was probably made around the same time though. In this movie these guys were walking deep in the forest and geiger counters (radiation meters) and went down like a manhole and there was like another city or something. I dont remember much i was really little but when i was watching stalker i could of swore it was the same movie but i didnt see them go down that hole so its not lol
@SirArsenic look at wikipedia :p the father got to the zone to do a wish he ask that her crippled doter can walk at the end you can think she get telekinesis or it is just the train that moves the glasses
It's not about telekinetic powers or this being real or a "dream", like somebody else wrote. Those thoughts concern the rational part of our mind. Don't try to "explain" everything, it's an error for this kind of art. This kind of scenes are directed to the emotional part of your mind, you need to "feel" them in order to understand them
@juanluiscebrian no it wase something ath the end to let you see if his whis is granted or not you can dicide but you just don't know it is the train or the child
This part, essentially means that feeling is more important than moving. The girl is not able to walk, but she is able to read a poem and feel its beauty. It's up to you now, to understand what is represented by the "fact" of moving the glasses by her eyes.
Please, don't compare different things, like films to books, paintings to music pieces, or statues to poems. Just try to enjoy what you see-hear-feel. Litterature uses words, cinema uses images, litterature describes, cinema shows. Let's say, they speak different languages, so even if one thing is based to the other, they are different things
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@bikasnikolaos i have only seen 30 of this movie and i already want to tear my fucking face off from the sheer idiocy and pretention of this abhorrant peace of fecal matter.
the movie has nothing to do with the game stalker. because the movie was made in 1979, the chernobyl disaster happend in 1986, and the game stalker was made in 2006.
@cerealkillerY More like many liken the depiction of ruins in Roadside Picnic and the Tarkovsky's film to Chernobyl afetr the incident. The ZOne of alienation in the book and film is like the real Chernobyl: an abandoned area overrun with nature, filled with danger and mystery. It's also interesting to note that some of the scientists and guides who stayed at Chernobyl afterwards were known as 'stalkers'.
the movie doesn't relate to the game, but the game relates to the movie. Both relate to brothers Strugatsy book "Roadside Picnic" - I recommend you read it!
game has some elements from the book and the film, but is the zone is put in the area of chernobil power plant. In the book and the movie are happening somewhere else.
Both the game and the movie are loosely based on the book Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky Brothers. The movie is in russian only and it's well worth seeing.
Did Tarkovsky not shoot in widescreen? I find it surprising that the dvd releases are, for the most part, all tv format. I would have thought that a director of his calibre would have made the most of the cinematic scales? And while I'm asking, is there dvd's available for Solaris etc which aren't split over two discs? Great posting by the way! Thanks.
It's all shot in film and transferred it to 4:3 format long time ago. The reason these DVDs are not in 16:9 (widescreen) is simple. Not enough people would buy this kind of sophisticated art movie, so those company who make Tarkovsky's DVDs could not afford to rescan films for widescreen DVD.
Tarkovsky's certainly intended for the movie to be as slow as it came out, but I agree with goback3spaces about it being a letdown. I was pretty hyped to see this thing, and I gave it so long so that I could get into the pace of it, but it seemed like a Russian play to me— archetypal characters talking about their world weariness. That's fine, movies can be lots of things.
But at a certain point, the film becomes an endurance piece...
What I love about this film and specifically this scene, is that there are so many ways of interpretting it. You could say that she's telepathic, or you could say that the train's moving the glasses and the scene's purely symbolic, or you could say that it's all happening in the mind of Stalker because he so wants to believe in the power of the Zone. I personally prefer the last one.
I think she is clearly telepathic: when the first two glasses are moved the train is not even close to their house. The idea of it all being Stalker's fantasy seems a bit forced, but I can clearly see where you're coming from.
I personally think that her gift is real, and the meaning of the scene is to show that Stalker's efforts were not in vain - his daughter is no ordinary person. All his naive and blissful kindness of the heart was rewaded. We must do good things in the name of our children
This is one of my favorite films! And how incredible that Tarkovsky was able to acheive so much with so little. The budget for this movie must have been close to 0 and there are basically only 3 actors in it.
Only a young government. And the US government isn't even that, considering it's been around for 200 years. And in that 200 years the political entity we now call the US has produced more culture then most other countries have in a thousand.
The only reason you don't recognize it is because it's become global.
@Neonman78 ERASERHEAD?? GO FUCK YOURSELF, WOW I LOVE ERASERHEAD CUZ ITS SO POPULAR! IM AN ARTS FUCK, CUZ I LOVE DAVID LYNCH AND ERASERHEAD WOAHHHZ!!!!
@monicadunca I don't believe you need to single out Americans. You could also say no one will ever make a film like Tarkovsky again. There's plenty of creative Americans, just like there's plenty of creative Russians.
@monicadunca I agree with you, it is basically due to the studio sytem, which is basically an industry for whom the bottom line is most important so they target the lowest common denominator. Having said that there are students and short film makers who do good stuff but nobody sees them since even the media is 'Moneypulated'. European film makers tend to be uncompromising and individualistic as artists ought to be.
@RonAlmeida lol and european filmmakers also tend to praise, site and (yes sometimes) COPY american filmmakers like; sam fuller, nicholas ray, martin scorsese and john cassavetes. and please save that typical "hollywood studio system" bullshit. david lynch, cassavetes, jarmusch, stan brahkage, kenneth anger, terrance mallick, altman (to name a few) have all said "fuck hollywood", and still not only became successful, but will go down in history.
@sucramnipp You are right, Success means different things to different people and why not? For some self expression rather than fame and fortune is it.
@monicadunca here we go with the typical "americans will never blahblahblah". why would you want an american filmmaker to make a movie like this? its a russian film. its a tarkovsky film. such a stupid statement. lol, i love how everyone tries to act like there are no great american "auteurs"...cassavetes, jarmusch, altman, hal hartley, charles burnett, lynch, mallick, van sant, etc. and dont get me started on how much european filmmakers praise sam fuller and nicholas ray (american directors)
@sucramnipp Theres a difference between quality of the movie and directing. American movies have good filters, cgi, lighting, sound, and effects. But the directing is GENERALY poor in the more popular movies, not all american directors. I love many American directors, but American directors mostly care about what the general idiot dirtbag public wants to see, not what smart minded viewers want.
@gameplaya117 i disagree, in my previous post i named plenty of great american directors, and that was without putting much thought. im sure i could name a ton. and why do people act like asia (especially china) and france dont try to copy big budget american styles. why does everyone act like america is the only country to make crap and filler? you guys really need to stop, lol. there's shit movies in every country. and a lot of your favorite european directors LOVE american directors
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eskondida1917 1 week ago
eskondida1917 1 week ago
If you don't like this movie, the problem is not about the movie: the problem is about you.
Lovlygod 3 weeks ago
In the first scene of the movie when a train is passing by, the glass moves too. But we don't know about the girl just yet :)
kerelberel 4 weeks ago
Αγαπώ τα λατρεμένα μάτια σου,φίλε μου
με το αστραφτερό τους φλογερό παιχνίδισμα,
όταν τ’ ανασηκώνεις φευγαλέα,
και το βλέμμα σου, σαν αστραπή στον ουρανό,
σαρώνει γρήγορα τα πάντα.
Αλλά ακόμα πιο μεγάλη ομορφιά
βρίσκω σε μάτια που χαμηλώνουν
για τη στιγμή του φλογερού φιλιού,
όταν απ' τα χαμηλωμένα τσίνορα
λάμπει η σκοτεινή, θαμπή φωτιά του πόθου.
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...teaches you one of the most important secrets of life
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One of the best movies EVER!!!
poppyflower24 1 month ago
25 dislike? ma vaffanculo
nimi1984 1 month ago 5
what is this???????
cassie7373 1 month ago
there is no spoon!
cerkuenik 2 months ago
the meaning of life is somewhere in this film, i think
blaiserfilms 2 months ago 11
@blaiserfilms it isn't. Thats the idea
sapunec7854 1 month ago
i don´t know what this is but i feel something grateful!!!
ArbeitmachtfreiX 2 months ago
I saw this for the first time a couple of months ago and I can't get it out of my head. Incredible artistry. I highly recommend this to anyone who really appreciates what film can accomplish.
QMPhilosophe 3 months ago 4
maybe it's only partially related but , for the next silent hill , the devs should use this movie as inspiration instead of....all the cheap thrillers they use as mind fodder.
Those are my 2 cents.
andrey22 4 months ago
This film is shot in Estonia. I have been to those places. The room and the house is demolished, but some places are still standing. The entry of the zone is in Tallinn city centre.
zagyex 5 months ago 2
Three man taking dangers and risk their lives to reach a point where their dreams can become true. They seek for something but don´t know hat it is, and when they get close to it they change their minds. They walk out of there having not reached their desires. In this scene the child who is disabled and is innocent and was never in the zone shows unbelievable powers of his own. For me it means that you may look for wonders all your life and never find them, while the wonders are your children
zagyex 5 months ago
@zagyex the trully great films, leave you to think about what it means! That is real Art... as the saying goes, there are more questions than answers! sometimes your desires/dreams are right in front of you, but you cannot see them because your mind isn"t open!
dan32113 4 months ago
kako predivan jezik
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at 2:46 he start to masturbate
thewoooty 6 months ago
ah the mystery. note the gun and vials in the water are the gun and bomb parts that will be tossed into the water, LATER! note that "crown of thorns" on his head.
Profound mysteries here, folks.
Suppose soon that the Room seeks YOU out? Not that you are Drawn to find it, but that *it comes to you*, then like it or not, all your inner wishes come true, ALL of them, even those ones!
[the wheat and the tares must grow together, before the Harvest!]
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freestonew 7 months ago
My friend is watching this film with subtitles. I was wondering how can this poem by translated in english? Is it possible? If anyone knows an english translation please send me a link!
wonderlandavenue 9 months ago
@wonderlandavenue
i don't know which translation is in english subtitles, but a very good translation of this poem by Tyutchev is the lyrics of Bjork's Dull Flame of Desire.
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@wonderlandavenue "I love your dear eyes, my friend / With their play so bright and wondrous / When you promptly rise them, and / Like with a lightning in the wildness / Embrace at once the whole land. / But there's more fabulous attraction: / The eyes directed to the floor / During the crazy osculation, / And through the lashes, set before, / The dusk and gloomy flame of passion
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Luminumbre 9 months ago
Universal truth!!!! Tarkovsky movies and Kurosawa movies are pure art.
danijeelm8 9 months ago
Great movie but i did not undestand this scene and this girl too she symbolizes for what !!!
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wow this film was just supernatural . i love him
23 people are dumb!
artmiss7 10 months ago
wow this film was just supernatural . i love him
artmiss7 10 months ago
It's GHOST!!!
NIKmikrus 10 months ago
You can´t understand these final scene using analytical reasoning, becouse Tarkovsky construct his work with a coating of spiritual language. In my opinion these frames evokes the uncontrollable mistery, in a spiritual meaning
waxwaine 10 months ago
I did not like Stalker as much......Have you guys seen Solyaris ?
Its the definitive Tarkovsky film......mesmerizing.
rishi851 10 months ago
3:05 "ode to joy" leitmotif
arkantoxic 11 months ago
In my opinion this scene means that the girl are a manifestation of the zone. The little girl can observe all in the zone and can manipulate her with telekinesis. During the stalker's sleep scene, a voice recites bible. In this scene you understand that the voice is that of the girl.
doctorcaligarissss 1 year ago
Anyone who tries to interpret this scene in his own way fails due to its extremely subjective naure. That!s the beauty of Tarkovsky, he made his film end in a fashion that prevented anyone from truly understand it subjectively, yet anyone who watched the movie undersstood t, the humanitarian message became the ultimate humanitarian bridge.
kortexsirvasil 1 year ago 3
it's so pity to see so much hateful comments... your eyes are emtpy... you see, but can't feel and understand...
funkdab 1 year ago 23
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.
nykfist 1 year ago 3
An English translation of Fedor Tyutchev "I Love Your Dear Eyes..." (1831-1836): "I love your dear eyes, my friend / With their play so bright and wondrous / When you promptly rise them, and / Like with a lightning in the wildness / Embrace at once the whole land. / But there's more fabulous attraction: / The eyes directed to the floor / During the crazy osculation, / And through the lashes, set before, / The dusk and gloomy flame of passion." Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, October, 2000
zygingintas 1 year ago 2
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zygingintas 1 year ago
In Soviet Russia, Magnet Under table moves glasses.
jon634 1 year ago
THIS ISN'T S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
D1reLegend 1 year ago
@D1reLegend this is stalker and the stalker game was based on tarkowski.
ElProyectoFenix 1 year ago
@ElProyectoFenix No, the game was based on the book by the Strugatsky brothers.
I have it myself, its one of the best books ive ever read, look it up. Its called "Roadside Picnic" By Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
Cheers
dragefyr 11 months ago 9
@dragefyr AH OK yes i know this work.. maybe you are right :)
ElProyectoFenix 11 months ago
@ElProyectoFenix (:
dragefyr 11 months ago
@dragefyr Man i read it too, i have the film and i have all the game series
Farkas4444 4 months ago
@D1reLegend No shit, sherlock !
Boldark 11 months ago
Super it is the best, very strong psihikal mine, only people about 35 - 55 most soviet people undesternd about his film. very very strong ..........
snvcc 1 year ago
I never knew a director so concerned about the importance of the sound than Tarkovsky... Maybe Kubrick. The equilibrium on the details between sound and image are perfect. If you're renting or buying a Tarkovsky movie and it sounds like shit, don't even botter, you're missing half of the movie.
carmaj156 1 year ago
i dont get it:P
aajdjr 1 year ago
@aajdjr Actually you need to see the whole movie. It's an allegory for Christ, christianity and mysticism. This scene shows that, despite the fact that Stalker ended up a human wreckage, his young daughter (the girl in this scene) is able to look beyond the bleak presence of reality, and thus is a hope for mankind itself. There are three glasses on the table. Three is a symbolic number in Christianity (holy Trinity etc). If you look carefully, there is wine in one of them, anothr chr. symbol
kostasxrysogelos 1 year ago 2
@kostasxrysogelos And the musical piece playing in the very end is "Ode to Joy", meaning that the young ones can change things, and therefore whe should be jouful for that. Finally, I think that the fact she is a girl and not a boy is not coincidental. In the New Testament it was the women who were mostly faithful to Christ. That's why Stalker himself seems to undergo an inner fight to convince others about the Zone, whereas his daughter believes without even visiting the Zone. Hoped I helped :)
kostasxrysogelos 1 year ago
@kostasxrysogelos Yes its about hope. No matter how impotent we are there is always a hope in the children.
zagyex 5 months ago
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trakovskyfilm 1 year ago
THE 3 GLASSES REPRESENT THE 3 MEN WHO WENT TO THE ZONE. 2 REMAINED ON THE TABLE, AND THE OTHER FELL. BUT IT DID NOT BREAK. GUESS WHOS THE ONE THAT FELL?
tool619 1 year ago
Astonishing power!
PhotoHealer 1 year ago 2
when my dog saw this scene he began to quake and he was realy scary as long as movie ended. I never seen that before. realy!!!
trifly78 1 year ago 2
A great Meister.
Ishialuna 1 year ago
10/10
rockismygirldude 1 year ago
Tarkovsky, the greatest poet of the cinema.
ateniense7 1 year ago 2
jupiterostselo 1 year ago
crazy chance discovery, but this is sampled at the end of "Requiem For Dying Mothers 2" by Stars Of The Lid from the album Tired Sounds. something about that train whistle just triggered some deep acoustic memory. I guess that's how much this film and that album have affected me.
floweringsilverzero 1 year ago
very great ,thanks
carlotta306 1 year ago
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Greatest movie ever made.
stabo10 1 year ago
Unusual good video quality. Youtube really got out of its way to improve its service. I wish my vid was that crystal clear.
lodproductions90 1 year ago
More than film, more than art.
Elementary Truth.
Tarkovsky.
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BachLoveNat 1 year ago
@BachLoveNat learn english my friend
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@Vihor189 the fuck are you on about?
kwi666 1 year ago
Great movie and very meaningful scene. Thanks for uploading.
deepskyblues 1 year ago
More like nobody will make a film like this one. Tarkovsky and most Americans directors use cinema for completely different reasons and neither one is "better" than the other. If someone chooses to watch Avatar over Stalker what does it matter to you? Some directors like to entertain, some like to be philosophical. Some viewers like the be entertained, some like the think (and only one type of viewer thinks they're smarter than the other), watch what you want to watch and stop fighting.
bobb328 1 year ago
Controller!!!
Annu1tco3pt1s 1 year ago
ah the stalker , brilliant !!!!!!!
MsMacca1968 1 year ago
I dont know what you are all on about, its pritty shit its all just TALK TALK TALK, fuck if I wanted this much fucking bordom I would live me life.
mylesbradley1234 1 year ago
@mylesbradley1234 HURR DURR Y CANT THIS MOVIE B LIEK MY SHOOTAN GAEM
Silly kid with ADHD, try to think about the context of things before giving your opinions. ¿What were you expecting? ¿a russian version of Rambo?
Celebriedad 1 year ago
@Celebriedad LOL XD pritty much XD XDXDXDXDXDXD O_o :P:P:P :>D ROFLSTALIN
mylesbradley1234 1 year ago
So the Stalker entered the room and made a wish but the Writer and Professor were too afraid to, and that's why he was upset?
ppitm 1 year ago
@ppitm I don't think there's ever proof that the Stalker, or even the writer/professor entered the room.
There could also be the possibility that the Stalker himself entered the room, and his child may be the result of the exposure (notice how scenes with the child are the only scenes outside of the Zone in colour)
Tarkovsky's movie doesn't really give answer, nor do I think it should.
charliec81 1 year ago
Sono d accordo nessuno può fare una cosa simile !!!!!!!!! Ma non è il caso di sottovalutare nessuno!!!
Grazie alla cultura Russa di qualità in generale!!!
bikasnikolaos 1 year ago
Was the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. based on this film?
grineti5 1 year ago
@grineti5
Only very loosely. The film is a masterpiece, the game is...well shit.
hyperseauton 1 year ago
@grineti5 No, it is based on the book this movie is based on.
ppitm 1 year ago
@grineti5 To some extent.
It's a combination of Roadside Picnc, the films, and the 1985 Chernobyl meltdown. Even the Monolith echoes Kubrick's 2001 film.
The Stalker film featured at least one anomaly known as Meat grinder, as well as bolt throwing, and scenes of technology and ruins of civilization overrun by nature. So, yes, the influence is there.
charliec81 1 year ago
Did his parents die when they went into the zone, or did they abandon him?
guy8900 1 year ago
ZAZ229 1 year ago
i dont know about what is it but i cant stop looking at it just wonderfull
svacar 1 year ago
Quality...
aydindurden 1 year ago
One of the greatest films ever made... this ending comes out of the blue and completely makes you re-evaluate what you've just watched
marlesghillie 1 year ago 6
Whats wrong with you people???
You cant comment a masterwork.....
delfreak 1 year ago
this movie was great, but After playing the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, I can't help but laugh and think of this scene as the first of the "Controller" mutants.
o5pr3y 1 year ago
I remember watching this film back when the stalker game came out, this film has nice scenery but is bat shit crazy.
levantos 1 year ago
А вы знаете кто-нибудь что именно это означает?...)
ierofant1000 1 year ago
@ierofant1000 это вера !!
027Karunesh 1 year ago
i once watched a russian film it was kind of like stalker all i remember is these guys walking around a forest with a geiger counter and then they went down a hole. There was a girl who was sick and needed massages or something. I think her dad was looking for a cure for her. It was really eery film if anyone knows whats its called please let me know :)
supagog 2 years ago
It's a movie called Stalker(1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky loosely based on the book "Roadside Picnic". The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is loosely based on this movie.
X10A 2 years ago 3
no its not stalker its kind of the same but there is a girl. It was probably made around the same time though. In this movie these guys were walking deep in the forest and geiger counters (radiation meters) and went down like a manhole and there was like another city or something. I dont remember much i was really little but when i was watching stalker i could of swore it was the same movie but i didnt see them go down that hole so its not lol
supagog 2 years ago
@supagog lol sorry man was probly stoned it my comment makes no sense looking at it now ;) Dam though, this other movie sounds kinda good.
X10A 2 years ago
I'm sorry would someone plz explain me this part?
SirArsenic 2 years ago
@SirArsenic look at wikipedia :p the father got to the zone to do a wish he ask that her crippled doter can walk at the end you can think she get telekinesis or it is just the train that moves the glasses
themassau 2 years ago
It's not about telekinetic powers or this being real or a "dream", like somebody else wrote. Those thoughts concern the rational part of our mind. Don't try to "explain" everything, it's an error for this kind of art. This kind of scenes are directed to the emotional part of your mind, you need to "feel" them in order to understand them
juanluiscebrian 2 years ago 3
@juanluiscebrian no it wase something ath the end to let you see if his whis is granted or not you can dicide but you just don't know it is the train or the child
themassau 2 years ago
i don't see a reason why one would need this "emotional understanding".. what are the applications?
Sergiuss555 1 year ago
@Sergiuss555 I suggest for you to research Stendhal Syndrome first. It will give you an understanding of how powerful art can be.
VitasWishList 1 year ago
This part, essentially means that feeling is more important than moving. The girl is not able to walk, but she is able to read a poem and feel its beauty. It's up to you now, to understand what is represented by the "fact" of moving the glasses by her eyes.
juanluiscebrian 2 years ago 2
is this stalker from tarkovsky?.
madinkaya 2 years ago
the film is better than the book, in my humble opinion...
janjankowski1979 2 years ago
Please, don't compare different things, like films to books, paintings to music pieces, or statues to poems. Just try to enjoy what you see-hear-feel. Litterature uses words, cinema uses images, litterature describes, cinema shows. Let's say, they speak different languages, so even if one thing is based to the other, they are different things
juanluiscebrian 2 years ago 2
hmmm... :)
janjankowski1979 2 years ago
@juanluiscebrian And the same goes for videogames too.
I love Tarkovsky's Stalker, but I also love S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Without the latter, I may have never seen this movie.
charliec81 1 year ago
If I had seen this scene as a child, it would probably scare me a lot.
subkontrabasklarinet 2 years ago 2
increible,magnifico!!
antonina97 2 years ago 3
BEST FILM AND BEST POETRY!!!!!
bikasnikolaos 2 years ago 23
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@bikasnikolaos i have only seen 30 of this movie and i already want to tear my fucking face off from the sheer idiocy and pretention of this abhorrant peace of fecal matter.
kwi666 1 year ago
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when this table quakes it looks like he's masturbating
athelia01 2 years ago
hahaha
killpop11 2 years ago
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at the minute 3:00 looks like he is jacking off, when the table is shaking lol
FCisco91 2 years ago
Но есть сильней очарованья:
Глаза, потупленные ниц
В минуты страстного лобзанья,
И сквозь опущенных ресниц
Угрюмый, тусклый огнь желанья
MrOstfront 2 years ago 6
Люблю глаза твои, мой друг,
С игрой их пламенно-чудесной,
Когда их приподымешь вдруг
И, словно молнией небесной,
Окинешь бегло целый круг...
MrOstfront 2 years ago 4
We SEARCH!!!
playboytini69 2 years ago 2
the movie has nothing to do with the game stalker. because the movie was made in 1979, the chernobyl disaster happend in 1986, and the game stalker was made in 2006.
carsfor4Iife 2 years ago 14
Actually, they're based on the same book and the game takes a lot of inspiration from the film (bolts, the wish granter, overall style).
Vahokif 2 years ago 2
Picnic by the road, is the title of the book, no? Best, Sandemose
Sandemose 2 years ago 2
Roadside Picnic, yes.
Vahokif 2 years ago 5
that is true, but many foresaw such an accident as the chernobyl inncident
cerealkillerY 2 years ago
@cerealkillerY More like many liken the depiction of ruins in Roadside Picnic and the Tarkovsky's film to Chernobyl afetr the incident. The ZOne of alienation in the book and film is like the real Chernobyl: an abandoned area overrun with nature, filled with danger and mystery. It's also interesting to note that some of the scientists and guides who stayed at Chernobyl afterwards were known as 'stalkers'.
charliec81 1 year ago
@carsfor4Iife No, but the game took multiple influences from the movie.
ProfessorShuckle 1 year ago
@carsfor4Iife The film and the game both draw elements from the novel "Roadside picnic"
greatgoofy 1 year ago
@carsfor4Iife Get out of here, Stalker!
NIkoFH 1 year ago
@carsfor4Iife
Well, not completely true.
Roadside Picnic, which is what this movie is loosely based on, was Published in 1971.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was also based off of Roadside Picnic, but the NPP accident is used to explain/cover up the reasons for all the anomalies.
ImFBC 1 year ago
This film does not concern game Stalker. Just word "Stalker" was thought up by the authors of this film.
The director of this film Andrey Tarkovksy.
STUDY RUSSIAN CINEMA!
ParamaVunt 2 years ago 3
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Does this movie relate to the game stalker, and is it only in Russian?
sithisxv 2 years ago
the movie doesn't relate to the game, but the game relates to the movie. Both relate to brothers Strugatsy book "Roadside Picnic" - I recommend you read it!
xxxaero 2 years ago 2
game has some elements from the book and the film, but is the zone is put in the area of chernobil power plant. In the book and the movie are happening somewhere else.
serbiansaber1 2 years ago
Both the game and the movie are loosely based on the book Roadside Picnic by Strugatsky Brothers. The movie is in russian only and it's well worth seeing.
tsoplika 2 years ago 7
what kind of special effect is this?
Vujo357 2 years ago
Did Tarkovsky not shoot in widescreen? I find it surprising that the dvd releases are, for the most part, all tv format. I would have thought that a director of his calibre would have made the most of the cinematic scales? And while I'm asking, is there dvd's available for Solaris etc which aren't split over two discs? Great posting by the way! Thanks.
NameCC8687 2 years ago
It's all shot in film and transferred it to 4:3 format long time ago. The reason these DVDs are not in 16:9 (widescreen) is simple. Not enough people would buy this kind of sophisticated art movie, so those company who make Tarkovsky's DVDs could not afford to rescan films for widescreen DVD.
kyumhoikoo 2 years ago
Actually, 4:3 is the original aspect ratio.
nicolawicz 2 years ago 3
i have Solaris on DVD which i bought in Russia. that's in 16:9
denkol2009 2 years ago
WoW! Thats a great quality you got there! How come I downloaded the DvDRip version and mine is all black and shady. Where did u get it?
khatmar 2 years ago
This is the second time he's used this music.. Also during the burning scene in "Nostalghia." I fucking love it..
manhattanprojec7 2 years ago 2
Tarkovsky's certainly intended for the movie to be as slow as it came out, but I agree with goback3spaces about it being a letdown. I was pretty hyped to see this thing, and I gave it so long so that I could get into the pace of it, but it seemed like a Russian play to me— archetypal characters talking about their world weariness. That's fine, movies can be lots of things.
But at a certain point, the film becomes an endurance piece...
Haberdasher102 2 years ago 3
Well, what do you wish to see in a film? Special effects?
xxxaero 2 years ago
What I love about this film and specifically this scene, is that there are so many ways of interpretting it. You could say that she's telepathic, or you could say that the train's moving the glasses and the scene's purely symbolic, or you could say that it's all happening in the mind of Stalker because he so wants to believe in the power of the Zone. I personally prefer the last one.
sophiavladimirovna33 2 years ago 3
I think she is clearly telepathic: when the first two glasses are moved the train is not even close to their house. The idea of it all being Stalker's fantasy seems a bit forced, but I can clearly see where you're coming from.
I personally think that her gift is real, and the meaning of the scene is to show that Stalker's efforts were not in vain - his daughter is no ordinary person. All his naive and blissful kindness of the heart was rewaded. We must do good things in the name of our children
eLRomaro 2 years ago 3
is she telepathic? Or is it just the train?
xaoseph 2 years ago
She is a mutant because of "the zone"
morfo1010 2 years ago 4
Great film! Tarkovsky is a genius
usbeko 2 years ago 7
This is one of my favorite films! And how incredible that Tarkovsky was able to acheive so much with so little. The budget for this movie must have been close to 0 and there are basically only 3 actors in it.
misternonconformist 2 years ago 3
I wanna go the the city they filmed the movie in. Though, a gas mask might be handy
SeriousIlya 2 years ago
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monicadunca 2 years ago
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monicadunca 2 years ago 43
2001 a space odyssey. but this was great.
YouDidntdoAnything 2 years ago 2
Then I applaud Americans.
goback3spaces 2 years ago
Except they have, and do. x 2
arseropes 2 years ago
@arseropes
tell me just one please( but not those done by "european americans" like Forman or Cubrick)
America is too young as a nation to do any masterpiece in art or culture..
dragannov 2 years ago
@dragannov
Their is no such thing as a "young country".
Only a young government. And the US government isn't even that, considering it's been around for 200 years. And in that 200 years the political entity we now call the US has produced more culture then most other countries have in a thousand.
The only reason you don't recognize it is because it's become global.
ogloosh 1 year ago
@monicadunca David Lynch got pretty close with Eraserhead.
Neonman78 1 year ago
@Neonman78 ERASERHEAD?? GO FUCK YOURSELF, WOW I LOVE ERASERHEAD CUZ ITS SO POPULAR! IM AN ARTS FUCK, CUZ I LOVE DAVID LYNCH AND ERASERHEAD WOAHHHZ!!!!
tool619 1 year ago
@tool619 That was a response to a comment that's no longer there. Do you know what you're talking about?
Neonman78 1 year ago
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monicadunca 1 year ago
@monicadunca I don't believe you need to single out Americans. You could also say no one will ever make a film like Tarkovsky again. There's plenty of creative Americans, just like there's plenty of creative Russians.
ptc5010 1 year ago
@ptc5010 like stephen speilberg. he has a sick mind but hes creative
ajl36117 1 year ago
@ajl36117 Spielberg is a cocksucker
amigoacid 1 year ago
@ptc5010 thank you. someone with a brain.
sucramnipp 1 year ago
@monicadunca I agree with you, it is basically due to the studio sytem, which is basically an industry for whom the bottom line is most important so they target the lowest common denominator. Having said that there are students and short film makers who do good stuff but nobody sees them since even the media is 'Moneypulated'. European film makers tend to be uncompromising and individualistic as artists ought to be.
RonAlmeida 1 year ago
@RonAlmeida lol and european filmmakers also tend to praise, site and (yes sometimes) COPY american filmmakers like; sam fuller, nicholas ray, martin scorsese and john cassavetes. and please save that typical "hollywood studio system" bullshit. david lynch, cassavetes, jarmusch, stan brahkage, kenneth anger, terrance mallick, altman (to name a few) have all said "fuck hollywood", and still not only became successful, but will go down in history.
sucramnipp 1 year ago
@sucramnipp You are right, Success means different things to different people and why not? For some self expression rather than fame and fortune is it.
RonAlmeida 1 year ago
@RonAlmeida right, and none of the american directors i mentioned in my previous comment cared about fortune OVER fame
sucramnipp 1 year ago
@RonAlmeida If you say so.
RonAlmeida 1 year ago
@monicadunca here we go with the typical "americans will never blahblahblah". why would you want an american filmmaker to make a movie like this? its a russian film. its a tarkovsky film. such a stupid statement. lol, i love how everyone tries to act like there are no great american "auteurs"...cassavetes, jarmusch, altman, hal hartley, charles burnett, lynch, mallick, van sant, etc. and dont get me started on how much european filmmakers praise sam fuller and nicholas ray (american directors)
sucramnipp 1 year ago
@sucramnipp Agreed - dumb comment.
chapaev36 1 year ago
@sucramnipp Theres a difference between quality of the movie and directing. American movies have good filters, cgi, lighting, sound, and effects. But the directing is GENERALY poor in the more popular movies, not all american directors. I love many American directors, but American directors mostly care about what the general idiot dirtbag public wants to see, not what smart minded viewers want.
gameplaya117 1 year ago
@gameplaya117 i disagree, in my previous post i named plenty of great american directors, and that was without putting much thought. im sure i could name a ton. and why do people act like asia (especially china) and france dont try to copy big budget american styles. why does everyone act like america is the only country to make crap and filler? you guys really need to stop, lol. there's shit movies in every country. and a lot of your favorite european directors LOVE american directors
sucramnipp 1 year ago