Stalker [1979] [Criterion] (BLU)
Andrei Tarkovsky
Synopsis
Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the Stalker—leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.
Special Features:
- 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- 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
- An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu
Product Details
- Format: Color
- Language: Russian
- Subtitles: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 07/18/2017
- Run Time: 161 minutes
- Catalogue #: 888
- Region: A