Alexander Leonidovich Kaidanovsky was a Soviet and Russian actor and film director.
Alexander Kaidanovsky in 1980
Stalker is a 1979 Soviet science fantasy art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the "Stalker", who guides his two clients—a melancholic writer seeking inspiration, and a professor seeking scientific discovery—through a hazardous wasteland 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 and fantasy with dramatic philosophical, psychological and theological themes.
Original release poster
One of the deserted hydro power plants near Tallinn, Estonia, where the central part of Stalker was shot.
Azerbaijani tar is used in the Stalker theme.