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Stalker
1979
· Movie
· 162 min
A
MEANRANK
85/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #135
- IMDb #336
- Google retired #1137
- Rotten Tomatoes #49
- Metacritic #417
- Letterboxd #58
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #24
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #333
- Metacritic Critics #414
- Metacritic Audience #796
- Criticker #27
- Douban #152
- Kinopoisk #169
- AlloCiné #470
- Trakt #656
Every rating
77–100
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 77, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a bleak and forbidden area known as the Zone, a guide leads two men—a writer and a professor—to a fabled room rumored to grant a person's deepest desires. The journey through the treacherous and ever-changing landscape is a philosophical one, where the men confront their own motivations and the nature of hope itself.
Details
- Director
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Based on
- Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- Studio
- Mosfilm
- Released
- 25 May 1979
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 162 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $120.0K
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Awards
2 wins & 2 nominations total
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