The film was shown on what was then West German television, thanks to partial German financing of the production.
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Filmed in Talinn, Estonia.
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The filming of STALKER began in February 1977 and was completed in 1979.
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After shooting all of the exterior shots for the film, Tarkovsky and his crew discovered that there was a serious defect in the film stock they were using, and thus everything had to be reshot.
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STALKER is based on PICNIC BY THE ROADSIDE by Arkadi Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky.
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There were more than 10 versions of the script written during production of the film.
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STALKER was Tarkovsky's first film for which no significant cuts were requested by the Soviet authorities.
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Since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster closely followed the release of STALKER, the film has been hailed by many as a prophetic vision of ecological disaster.
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F.I. Tiutchev and Arseny Tarkovsky (the director's father) wrote the poetry used in the film.
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The film's black-and-white sections are variously tinted in color and sepia tones. The sequences in the Zone are filmed in color.
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"It's about the existence of God in man and about the death of spirituality as a result of our possessing false knowledge."--Tarkovsky on STALKER
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