Stalker

1979

In an unnamed country at an unspecified time, there is a fiercely protected post-apocalyptic wasteland known as The Zone. An illegal guide (Aleksandr Kajdanovsky), whose mutant child suggests unspeakable horrors within The Zone, leads a writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) and a scientist (Nikolay Grinko) into the heart of the devastation in search of a mythical place known only as The Room. Anyone who enters The Room will supposedly have any of his earthly desires immediately fulfilled.

There's no need to speak. You must only...concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder.

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Superior

Film Detail

Genre

Drama - Sci-Fi and Fantasy

Length

2 hrs. 42 mins.

US Theatrical Release

October 20, 1982

US Box Office

$292,049 (#6640 of 7554)

Global Office

No Data Available

Rating

Not Rated

Collection Detail

Edition

Criterion Collection #888 Digital Only

Resolution | Digital Platform

iTunes

Aspect Ratio

FS 1.37:1

Audio

Russian: DD+ Stereo

Studio

Haven't seen it yet.

Actors

Alisa Freyndlikh

Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Nikolay Grinko

Natalya Abramova

Faime Jurno

E. Kostin

Raimo Rendi

Directors

Andrei Tarkovsky

Producers

Aleksandra Demidova

Writers

Arkadiy Strugatskiy

Boris Strugatskiy

Awards & Accolades

2012 IMDB Top 250: Film - Rank: #243

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Ratings

JB Users

100%

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43 votes

92%

Popcornmeter

1,583 votes

METASCORE

17 votes

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

149,205 votes