Story Line
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
“There's no need to speak. You must only...concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder.”
Top Cast
Alisa Freyndlikh
Stalker's Wife
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Stalker
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Writer
Mykola Hrynko
Professor
Natalya Abramova
Marta
Faime Jurno
Writer's Companion
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Rating
8.1/ 10
Release Date
1979-05-25
Runtime
2h 42m
Genres
Science FictionDrama
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User Reviews (4)
Infra
No rating•9/17/2017
This movie is like an onion, has multiple layers. To understand it, you have to be very careful and pacient. You have to focus on movie and not doing anything else while you watch it, because if you don't, you won't understand it.
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CinemaSerf
7/10
•6/14/2022This really is the cinematic equivalent of "be careful for you wish for". Two characters - a teacher and a professor, seek out a "stalker" who can lead them through the maze of challenges that culminates in an heavily restricted area know as the zone...
Filipe Manuel Neto
2/10
•5/31/2023**More style than content.**
This was my first contact with the cinematographic work of Andrei Tarkovsky, a Soviet filmmaker who would end his career outside his native country when he fell into disgrace for allegedly spending too much money on fi...
CarsonTrent
10/10
•12/23/2025**Metaphysical themes explored in Stalker**
The three main characters are Archetypes: Writer, Professor (scientist) and Stalker (seeker).
One is the Stalker which is the seeker, a man searching for redemption which has faith ( Faith is an unres...