Stalker

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Year: 1979
Country: West Germany | Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Subtitles: English
Length: 163 mins
Format: PAL | R2
Colour: Colour | Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37: 1

Synopsis

Deep within the Zone, a bleak and devastated forbidden landscape, lies a mysterious room with the power to grant the deepest wishes of those strong enough to make the hazardous journey there. Desperate to reach it, a scientist and a writer approach the Stalker, one of the few able to navigate the Zone's menacing terrain, and begin a dangerous trek into the unknown.
Tarkovsky's second foray into science fiction after Solaris is a surreal and disturbing vision of the future. Hauntingly exploring man's dreams and desires, and the consequences of realising them, Stalker, adapted from Arkady & Boris Strugatsky's novel 'Roadside Picnic', has been described as one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.