Title from container. Based on the short novel: Roadside picnic. DVD release of the 1979 motion picture. Aspect ratio, 1.37:1. Special features: New interview with Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: a book about a film about a journey to a room ; interviews from 2000 with set designer Rashit Safiullin and composer Eduard Artemyev ; interview from the mid-1990s with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky ; essay by critic Mark Le Fanu. Alisa Freindlikh, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Natasha Abramova.
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 one'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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