Description
THE CRITERION COLLECTION
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.
- New 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
- PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu
Product details
| SKU | 5050629100938 |
| Alphabetical Title | Stalker |
| Aspect Ratio | 1.37:1 |
| Blu-Ray Region | B |
| Brand / Publisher | Criterion Collection |
| Catalogue Number | CC2782BDUK |
| Certificate | PG |
| Colour | Colour |
| Countries | Russian |
| Director | Tarkovsky, Andrei |
| Format | Blu-ray |
| Language(s) | Russian |
| Product contents | Single disc |
| Running time | 161 mins |
| Size | No size |
| Sound | Russian: LPCM Mono (48kHz, 24-bit) |
| Subtitles | English SDH |
| Year | 1979 |
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