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1 videodisc (161 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.. + 1 folded sheet.
At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. 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 the 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 a room where the center of power and evil confronts them and the future of mankind.
Mosfilʹm ; Vtoroe tvorcheskoe obʺedinenie ; st︠s︡enariĭ Arkadiĭ Strugat︠s︡kogo, Boris Strugat︠s︡kogo ; postanovka Andreĭ Tarkovskogo ; director kartiny Aleksandra Demidova.
Adapted from the novel Roadside picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.
Special features: New 2k digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; 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: essay by critic Mark Le Fanu.
Alisa Freindilkh, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Natasha Abramova.
Blu-ray; NTSC, region A; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono; requires Blu-ray player.