![]() ![]() According to author Boris Strugatsky, "prospectors" and "trappers" were potential word choices before "stalker" was decided on, which was at least partially inspired by Rudyard Kipling's character "Stalky" in his Stalky & Co. 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". 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. The film sold over 4 million tickets, mostly in the Soviet Union, against a budget of 1 million roubles. Upon release, the film garnered mixed reviews, but in subsequent years it has been recognized as a classic of world cinema, with the British Film Institute ranking it #29 on its list of the "50 Greatest Films of All Time". Stalker was released on Goskino in May 1979. The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the "Stalker" ( Alexander Kaidanovsky), who takes his two clients-a melancholic writer ( Anatoly Solonitsyn) seeking inspiration, and a professor ( Nikolai Grinko) seeking scientific discovery-to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the "Zone", where there supposedly exists a room which grants a person's innermost desires. The film combines elements of science fiction with dramatic philosophical, psychological and theological themes. She also received a Nika Award in 2005.Stalker (Russian: Ста́лкер, IPA: ) is a 1979 Soviet science fiction art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. Petersburg was visited by Vladimir Putin, who awarded her with state decoration of the Russian Federation. On her 70th birthday, Freindlich's apartment in St. Another notable role was the Queen Anne of Austria in the Soviet TV series D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) and its later Russian sequels, Musketeers Twenty Years Later (1992) and Queen Anne's Secret or Musketeers Thirty Years Later (1993). Thereupon director Georgy Tovstonogov invited her to join the troupe of BDT in which she works to this day.Īlthough Freindlich put a premium on her stage career, she starred in several notable movies, including Eldar Ryazanov's enormously popular comedy Office Romance (1977), the long-banned epic Agony (1975) and Tarkovsky's sci-fi movie Stalker (1979). Then she joined the Lensovet Theatre company, but in 1982, she had to leave it following her divorce from the theatre's director, Igor Vladimirov. From 1957 to 1961 Alisa Freindlich was a member of the troupe at Komissarjevsky Theatre in Leningrad. ![]() In the 1950s she studied acting at the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema, graduating in 1957 as actress. During the Second World War she survived the 900-day-long Siege of Leningrad and continued her school studies after the war. In her childhood years, Alisa Freindlich attended the drama and music classes of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. Her father and paternal relatives were ethnic Germans living in Russia for more than a century. Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (Russian: Али́са Бру́новна Фре́йндлих, born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress, People's Artist of the Soviet Union.Īlisa Freindlich was born into the family of Bruno Freindlich, a prominent actor and People's Artist of the Soviet Union.
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