„Режисьорът се нуждае, ние пишем“ (Реконструкции на тема Тарковски и Братя Стругацки)
The Director Needs, We Write” (on Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Strugatsky Brothers’ Roadside Picnic)

Summary/Abstract: The text traces the difficult process of creating the film “Stalker” from the point of view of the creative searches of its director Andrei Tarkovsky and the transformations that he and the screenwriters of the film, the Strugatsky brothers, went through. This process is interesting, as through it one can trace the attitude of Tarkovsky and the change of the material from the story “Picnic by the road”. The present text starts from the differences between the main characters in the story and the film, from the different points of departure on which they lean, to defend the thesis that the image of the Stalker from the film is contained in the image of Redrir Schuhart from the novel and can be spoken of evolutionary development of one image into another. The end of the text offers a commentary on the story in the context of today’s political situation in the territory of the former Soviet Union.

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