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| Stalker |
Arguably the most accessible of Tarkovsky's films, this philosophical fable employs the roughest outlines of a novel called
The Roadside Picnic by Soviet sci-fi writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
A mysterious Zone is said to contain a room that grants wishes; the Stalker will take you there for a fee, past military checkpoints and more obscure dangers.
A clear imprint of this terse, laconic film is still felt in such apocalyptic hits as Danny Boyle's
28 Days Later.
