Stalker (1979)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky · Cinematography by Aleksandr Knyazhinsky, Leonid Kalashnikov
162 min60 frames
Science FictionDrama
There's no need to speak. You must only...concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder.
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What is Stalker about?
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.
Stalker is a 1979 Soviet post-apocalyptic drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the "Stalker", who guides his two clients—a melancholic writer and a professor —through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the "Zone", where supposedly exists a room which grants a person's innermost desires. The film combines elements of science fiction and fantasy with dramatic, philosophical, and psychological themes.
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What does the cinematography of Stalker look like?
Sampled across 60 frames, the coverage of Stalker leans on wide compositions (35% of the sample) and medium shots (25%). Cinematographer Aleksandr Knyazhinsky keeps 55% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 65% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame.
What is the color palette of Stalker?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Stalker (1979) are #303029, #54544a, #0f0f0d, #4b4b39, #29251c, #8e8a76 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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