Release Date: July 11, 2017
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Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Writers: Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy
Starring: Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Alisa Freyndlikh
Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalkerenvelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.
Purchase Links & Prices:
Amazon.com - $24.05
Criterion.com - $31.96
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Writers: Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy
Starring: Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Alisa Freyndlikh
- Russia
- 1979
- 161 minutes
- Color
- 1.37:1
- Russian
- Spine #888
Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalkerenvelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
- Interviews from 2002 with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky, set designer Rashit Safiullin, and composer Eduard Artemyev
- PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu
