Stalker
Title:
Stalker
Author:
Tarkovsky, Andrei.
Edition:
2 DVD Koleksiyon versiyonu .
Publication Information:
[Moscow] : RUSCICO; Turkey: Distributed by D Yapım, c2006.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (163 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1962.
A foreign film (Soviet Union).
Based on the short novel Piknik na obochine [Roadside picnic] by Arkady and Boris Strugatzky.
Special features: Disc 1: photo album; Tarkovsky's biography essay; excerpt from The steamroller and the violin (1960, 5 min., excerpt from Tarkovsky's diploma film from film school); Memory (1997, 5 min. short film by Tarkovsky about his home). Disc 2: video interviews with cameraman and production designer; cast and crew biographies and filmographies.
Abstract:
At the center of an outlawed region of Russian wilderness called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces, said to be aliens. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill one's greatest desires. Only an outlaw stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must face the room where the center of power and evil confronts them and the future of mankind.