Stalker (The Criterion Collection)

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.


FILM INFO
Soviet Union
1979
161 minutes
Color
1.37:1
Russian
Spine #888


SPECIAL FEATURES
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
New cover by Tamas Horváth