Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris and Stalker. Stalker would become the most tortuous and troubled production of Tarkovsky. Further searches in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine and Crimea proved fruitless. Tarkovsky eventually found new locations in the Baltic state of Estonia: a dilapidated ship repair yard, a crumbling hydroelectric station, an abandoned oil processing plant and other post- industrial ruins around the capital, Tallinn. But on return to Moscow, they found the processed footage was an unwatchable shade of dark green. Months of work had been ruined by technical error or, as the director suspected, sabotage. The film, like all of Tarkovsky, is slow (nearly three hours), but the climax at the room is one of his greatest achievements.And they gave Andrei a regular Kodak except that nobody knew about this and that. Tarkovsky considered it a result of scheming by his enemies. But I think it was just the usual Russian sloppiness. With his state- funded budget in jeopardy, a devastated Tarkovsky was initially reluctant to continue. A minor heart attack in April 1. But he eventually came up with a solution, persuading the film board to finance a new, longer, two- part version of the script. Stalker evolved from dystopian road movie to sombre spiritual quest. But there was further on- set friction when a freak summer snowfall delayed the shoot. According to Sharun, cast and crew filled the long, empty days in their run- down suburban hotel with epic binge- drinking sessions. Some even got wasted on cheap cologne mixed with sugar. A furious Tarkovsky ended up sacking several crew members, branding them . He even fired his art director Shavkat Abdusalamov for the glorious crime of . A unique documentary rediscovering part of the history of Soviet cinema through the life and work of the brightest Russian director of photography, Georgi Rerberg, the man behind the camera of Tarkovsky's films Mirror and. Andrei Tarkovsky: The essential documentaries on Russian Master. Andrei Tarkovsky: The essential documentaries on Russian Master. Rerberg and Tarkovsky. Directed by Igor Maiboroda. With Shavkat Abdusalamov, Vadim Alisov, Irina Antonova. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussions, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Fan Sites. The conflict surrounding the production of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 masterpiece 'Stalker', as well as a look at the tragic character that was Georgi Rerberg.
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