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Tarkovsky's "Stalker" as a political allegory
By Eugene Izraylit

Of all great poets of cinema, few are regarded higher than Andrei Tarkovsky. His poetic interpretation of reality is as far away from social realist filmmaking as anyone ever dared to go in the former Soviet Union. His payment for this freedom was the fact that very few of his ideas were allowed to be produced, and even when produced many of them were not shown for many years. Stalker's story is even more peculiar. An accident at the lab ruined all of the footage and the entire film had to be re-shot for less than a third of the original budget. The film's very existence is a miracle - in my opinion in more ways than one.
The Stalker has been the subject of countless articles that equate it to a metaphor – a modern day Jesus in a post-apocalyptic society. One cannot ignore the fact that the story by the Strugatsky brothers was inspired by the accident at a nuclear plant near Chelyabinsk. I, however, believe that......

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