Alisa Freĭndilkh, Aleksandr Kaĭdanovskiĭ, Anatoliĭ Solonit︠s︡yn, Nikolaĭ Grinʹko, Natasha Abramova. Adapted from the novel Roadside picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Originally released as a motion picture in 1979. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: 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 2000 with set designer Rashit Safiullin and composer Eduard Artemyev; interview from the mid-1990s with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky ; plus: essay by critic Mark Le Fanu.
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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