Film Screening of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979)

Strap in for the psychological journey that is Tarkovsky's classic film, Stalker.

Stalker (1979) is a Soviet science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, loosely based on the 1972 novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. A character known as the "Stalker" (Alexander Kaidanovsky), leads two clients—a melancholic writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and a professor (Nikolai Grinko)—through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the "Zone". A room in the “Zone” promises to grant a person's innermost desires. The film combines elements of science fiction and fantasy with dramatic philosophical, and psychological themes.

Slant Magazine critic, Nick Schager, described the film as a "dense, complex, often-contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness, the necessity for faith in an increasingly secular, rational world, and the ugly, unpleasant dreams and desires that reside in the hearts of men." (2006)

Language: Russian, with English subtitles
Rating: This film is rated PG

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