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Stalker
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About 1979 film by Andrei Tarkovsky
Genres drama, science fiction, art, arthouse science fiction
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Written by Andrei Tarkovsky, Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky
Starring Alisa Freindlich, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Nikolai Grinko, Vladimir Zamanskiy
Music Eduard Artemyev
Runtime 163 min
Country Soviet Union
Links TMDB · IMDb · Letterboxd · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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