In 1979, the Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky released a movie loosely ... practically adapting the novel and the movie's Zone setting directly, STALKER also borrows its name directly, though ...

For example, the Zone itself ... for a fact that I’d feel that way about Stalker if I had watched it at a younger age. I mean, hell, I watched Tarkovsky’s movie, Mirror, as an adult, and ...

Tarkovsky's films include Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker. They are characterized by spirituality and metaphysical themes, long takes, lack of conventional dramatic structure and plot ...