Adventure / Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Sci-Fi
Synopsis
The 'Stalker' is half-outlaw, half-saint; he guides those who want to enter the Forbidden Zone, seeking an answer to their deepest desires, while hoping to heal his own sick daughter: but the Zone plays strange tricks on those who dare to enter - and Tarkovsky here creates his most disturbing vision of a dislocated world.
Directed by
Andrei Tarkovsky
Written by
Arkadi Strugatsky (novel "The Roadside Picnic"); Boris Strugatsky (novel "The Roadside Picnic"); Arkadi Strugatsky (screenplay); Boris Strugatsky (screenplay); Andrei Tarkovsky (screenplay) (uncredited).
Starring
Aleksandr Kaidanovsky (Stalker); Alisa Frejndlikh (Stalker's Wife); Anatoli Solonitsyn (Writer); Nikolai Grinko (Scientist); Natasha Abramova (Martha, Stalker's daughter). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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