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by Mediterraneo10
1957 days ago
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He is probably referring to the death of several people from cancer after the filming of Stalker, because some scenes were filmed at an industrial facility in Estonia where actors and crew were exposed to pollution. But to blame Tarkovsky personally for this is a bit of a stretch. |
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"We were shooting near Tallinn in the area around the small river Jägala with a half-functioning hydroelectric station. Up the river was a chemical plant and it poured out poisonous liquids downstream. There is even this shot in Stalker: snow falling in the summer and white foam floating down the river. In fact it was some horrible poison. Many women in our crew got allergic reactions on their faces. Tarkovsky died from cancer of the right bronchial tube. And Tolya Solonitsyn ["the Writer"] too. That it was all connected to the location shooting for Stalker became clear to me when [Tarkovsky's wife] Larisa Tarkovskaya died from the same illness in Paris."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)#Production...