Stalker [videorecording] / Mosfilʹm and Vtoroe Mvorcheskoe Obʺedinenie (Second Artists' Association) present a film by Andrei Tarkovskii ; screenplay, Arkadii Strugatskii, Boris Strugatskii ; producer, Aleksandra Demidova ; director, Andrei Tarkovskii.
Alisa Freindlich, Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko. DVD release of the 1979 motion picture. Based on the novel "The roadside picnic" by Arkadii Strugatskii and Boris Strugatskii. Special features: interviews with composer Artemyev, cameraman Knyazhinsky, and set decorator Rashit Safiullin ; excerpt from "The steamroller and the violin", Tarkovsky's diploma film at the Soviet film school VGIK ; "Memory" a short film about Tarkovsky's home ; cast & crew biographies/filmographies ; photo album.
Summary:
At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must face a room where the center of power and evil confronts them and the future of mankind.
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