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64 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 2/3 — Stalker

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Stalker - A Very Dirty, Broken, Ruralized Film

The early part of the film is set in a post-industrial wasteland. There are no houses, shops or really streets to speak of. The places that they drive through are these kind of abandoned business and warehouse districts. It feels a bit like the old docks or something. We have two kind of spaces that are inhabited, one is flat which looks out on the power station and a road and one is a bar which looks out into a canal.

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