«Сталкер»: зона до зоны
Stalker: The Zone Before the Zone
B2 · Upper-Intermediate · non-fiction · 16 scenes · Premium story
Sixteen scenes on Tarkovsky's 1979 film: the Strugatsky novel it came from and everything the director threw out of it, a year of footage ruined in the lab and a cinematographer fired, a hundred and forty-two shots in a hundred and sixty-three minutes, sepia outside the zone and colour inside it, seventeen minutes of music and the melodies hidden inside passing trains. Then the Estonian locations, the chemical plant upstream and what it may have cost the people who filmed there; the themes of pollution, prohibition, alienation and a room nobody dares enter; and the Zone's afterlife — Chernobyl seven years later, and a Kyiv studio building a game inside the real thing.
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Characters
- Andrei Tarkovsky (Андрей Тарковский) — Director, 1932–1986
- The Strugatsky brothers (Аркадий и Борис Стругацкие) — Authors of the novel and the screenplay
- Eduard Artemyev (Эдуард Артемьев) — Composer
- The Zone (Зона) — The place itself
Vocabulary from this story
- фильм — film
- режиссёр — director
- решение — decision
- оператор — cinematographer
- съёмка — shoot
- плёнка — film stock
- кадр — shot
- монтаж — editing
- сценарий — screenplay
- экран — screen
- объектив — lens
- дубль — take