A PsyCoSys Release / RiPPed by AerOFist

Stalker [1979]
Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky

Language: Russian w/ embedden english subtitles
Duration: 2h 34min 57sec

Source: 2 x PAL DVD5 (The film is split in two parts over two DVDs in the original release)

File Name: Stalker[1979.Tarkovsky][eng.sub]DVDrip-PsyCoSys-Part.1.avi
File Size: 625 MB (655,880,192 bytes)
Duration: 01h 02min 45sec

File Name: Stalker[1979.Tarkovsky][eng.sub]DVDrip-PsyCoSys-Part.2.avi
File Size: 921 MB (966,782,976 bytes)
Duration: 01h 32min 12sec

[Video Info]
Resolution: 592x448
Codec: XviD MPEG-4
FPS: 25.00 [PAL]
BitRate: 1281 Kbps [part.1] / 1286kbps [part.2]
Quality Factor: 0.20 bits/pixel

[Audio Info]
Codec: MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3)
Number of channels: 2
Sample Rate: 44100 Hz
BitRate: 112 Kbps

[Plot Summary]
Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, an allegorical science fiction film like his earlier Solaris, was adapted from the novel Picnic by the Roadside by brothers Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky. The film follows three men -- the Writer (Nikolai Grinko), the Scientist (Anatoliy Solonitsyn), and the Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) -- as they travel through a mysterious and forbidden territory in the Russian wilderness called the "Zone". In the Zone, nothing is what it seems. Objects change places, the landscape shifts and rearranges itself. It seems as if an unknown intelligence were actively thwarting any attempt to penetrate its borders. In the Zone, there is said to be a bunker, and in the bunker: a magical room which has the power to make wishes come true. The Stalker is the hired guide for the journey who has, through repeated visits to the Zone, become accustomed to its complex traps, pitfalls, and subtle distortions. Only by following his lead (which often involves taking the longest, most frustrating route) can the Writer and the Scientist make it alive to the bunker and the room. As the men travel farther into the Zone, they realize it may take something more than just determination to succeed: it may actually take faith. Increasingly unsure of their deepest desires, they confront the room wondering if they can, in the end, take responsibility for the fulfillment of their own wishes.

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