Twenty Years After, Tarkovsky (part 2 of n)

If you think science fiction films in the former USSR Tarkovsky in the film director you can not miss.

Tarkovsky was of course the director of "Solaris", by the time Stanly Kubrick was directing "2001", but also the director of "Stalker" in the early 80's.

"Stalker" is the summit, in sci-fi movies, of Russian way to tell things, as in literature we have "doctor jivago" and "war and peace".

Stalker is loosely based on a book of the Strugatsky brothers, but the main point of interest today is the, real or imagined, connexion between the film and the Chernobyl accident, 6 years after the film was produced.

In some cases the cases the coincidence was forced when the nomenclature of the film was applied to the situation after the 1986 accident. But a lot of people see in the movie a (grim) anticipation.

However the most amazing thing is that - I read - the last scenes of Stalker where shoot with Chernobyl in the background.

UPDATE:

in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_zone

we can read "In a bizarre coincidence, the movie itself ends on a shot of the Chernobyl power plant taken before the 1986 explosion"

in:

http://www.kamera.co.uk/reviews_extra/stalker.php

we can read "During the film [Stalker] Revelation 8:7-11 [Bible] is eerily read: The third angel blew his trumpet; and a great star shot from the sky, flaming like a torch; and it fell on a third of the rivers and springs. The name of the star was Wormwood; and a third of the water turned to wormwood, people in great numbers died of the water because it had been poisoned"

More:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=&t=k&ll=51.387222,30.111389&spn=0.048742,0.1157

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidators

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_alienation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident