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Alexander Leonidovich Kaidanovsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Леони́дович Кайдано́вский; 23 July 1946 — 2 December 1995) was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director. His best known roles are in films such as Stalker (1979), At Home Among Strangers (1974), and The Bodyguard (1979).
Alexandr Kajdanovsky, Russian actor, director and screenwriter, now. best remembered for his work in. Andrei Tarkovsky 's films. Kajdanovsky. left Junior High School to enroll in technical college where he was. training to become a welder. Apparently a prospect of becoming a worker.
- Actor, Director, Writer
- July 23, 1946
- 2 min
- December 2, 1995
Alexander Sergeevich Khodakovsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ходако́вский, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvʲɪtɕ xədɐˈkofskʲɪj]) is the commander of the Russian separatist militia, the Vostok Battalion, which formed in early May 2014 during the 2014 insurgency in Donbas . Biography.
- Александр Сергеевич Ходаковский
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The meaning of the word "stalker" was derived from its use by the Strugatsky brothers in their novel Roadside Picnic, upon which the movie is based. In Roadside Picnic, "Stalker" was a common nickname for men engaged in the illegal enterprise of prospecting for and smuggling alien artifacts out of the "Zone". According to author Boris Strugatsky, "...
A man works in an unnamed location as a "Stalker" leading people through the "Zone", an area in which the normal laws of physics do not apply and remnants of seemingly extraterrestrial activity lie undisturbed among its ruins. The Zone contains a place called the "Room", said to grant the wishes of anyone who steps inside. The area containing the Z...
Nikolai Grinko as the Professor (voiced by Sergei Yakovlev)In a review in Slant Magazine, critic Nick Schager describes the film as a "dense, complex, often-contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness, the necessity for faith in an increasingly secular, rational world, and the ugly, unpleasant dreams and desires that reside in the hearts of men", while conceding that the oblique...
Writing
After reading the novel Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky initially recommended it to a friend, the film director Mikhail Kalatozov, thinking Kalatozov might be interested in adapting it into a film. Kalatozov abandoned the project when he could not obtain the rights to the novel. Tarkovsky then became very interested in adapting the novel and expanding its concepts. He hoped it would allow him to make a film which conformed to the classical Aristotelian unity; a sing...
Production
In an interview on the MK2 DVD, the production designer, Rashit Safiullin, recalled that Tarkovsky spent a year shooting all the outdoor scenes. However, when the crew returned to Moscow, they found that the film had been improperly developed and their footage was unusable. The film had been shot on new Kodak 5247 stock with which Soviet laboratories were not very familiar. Even before the film stock problem was discovered, relations between Tarkovsky and Stalker's first cinematographer, Geor...
Style
Like Tarkovsky's other films, Stalker relies on long takes with slow, subtle camera movement, rejecting the use of rapid montage. The film contains 142 shots in 163 minutes, with an average shot length of more than one minute and many shots lasting for more than four minutes.[n 3] Almost all of the scenes not set in the Zone are in sepiaor a similar high-contrast brown monochrome, with the exception of scenes featuring Stalker's daughter, shot in colour.
The Stalker film score was composed by Eduard Artemyev, who had also composed the scores for Tarkovsky's previous films Solaris and Mirror. For Stalker, Artemyev composed and recorded two different versions of the score. The first score was done with an orchestra alone but was rejected by Tarkovsky. The second score that was used in the final film ...
Box office
Stalkersold 4.3 million tickets in the Soviet Union.
Critical response
Upon its release the film's reception was less than favorable. Officials at Goskino, a government group otherwise known as the State Committee for Cinematography, were critical of the film. On being told that Stalkershould be faster and more dynamic, Tarkovsky replied: The Goskino representative then stated that he was trying to give the point of view of the audience. Tarkovsky supposedly retorted: More recently, reviews of the film have been highly positive. On review aggregator Rotten Tomat...
Awards and nominations
The film was awarded the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Audience Jury Award – Special Mention at Fantasporto, Portugal.
In East Germany, DEFA did a complete German dubbed version of the movie which was shown in cinema in 1982. This was used by Icestorm Entertainment on a DVD release, but was heavily criticized for i...RUSCICO produced a version for the international market containing the film on two DVDs with remastered audio and video. It contains the original Russian audio in an enhanced Dolby Digital 5.1 remi...Criterion Collection released a remastered edition DVD and Blu-Ray on 17 July 2017. Included in the special features is an interview with film critic Geoff Dyer, author of the book Zona: A Book Abo...Cultural events
1. The film heavily influenced the Cacophony Society, which began in 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Areaand which organized "Zone Trips" for participants. 2. The first burning of a wooden, symbolic man at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, occurred on "Zone Trip Number 4" in 1990. This occasion evolved into an enormous annual festival of arts, music, culture called Burning Man.
Film and television
1. The French filmmaker Chris Marker used Tarkovsky's concept of "The Zone" from the film for his film, Sans Soleil(1983). 2. Stalker, the Russian International Human Rights Film Festival, was named after the film at its founding in 1995. 1. The 2012 film Chernobyl Diaries also involves a tour guide, similar to a stalker, giving groups "extreme tours" of the Chernobyl area.[citation needed] 2. Jonathan Nolan, co-creator of Westworld (2016–), cites Stalkeras an influence on his work for the HB...
Literature
1. In 2012, the English writer Geoff Dyer published Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Roomdrawing together his personal observations as well as critical insights about the film and the experience of watching it.
Stalker at IMDbStalker at AllMovieStalker at the TCM Movie DatabaseStalker at Rotten Tomatoes- Aleksandra Demidova
- Eduard Artemyev
- 25 May 1979
Jan 8, 2023 · A professional "Stalker" (Alexander Kaidanovsky) is hired by a Writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and a Professor (Nikolai Grinko) to lead them into a mysterious, dangerous nature preserve called...
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Dec 3, 1995 · Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy (23 July 1946 — 2 December 1995) was a Soviet actor and film director. His best known roles are in films such as Stalker, At Home Among Strangers, and The Bodyguard. Prior to pursuing an acting career, Kaydanovskiy attended technical college where he trained to become a welder.
Alexander Kaidanovsky primarily appeared in classic Russian films such as The Golden River (1973) and Nikita Mikhalkov's At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger at Home (1975). Internationally, he is best-known for playing the title role in Andrei Tarkovsky's classic sci-fi/thriller Stalker (1979).
