TY - ADVS AU - Tarkovsky,Andrei Arsenyevich AU - Strugatsky,Boris Natanovich AU - Strugatsky,Arkady Natanovich AU - Demidova,Aleksandra AU - Freindlikh,Alisa AU - Kaidanovsky,Alexander AU - Solonitsyn,Anatoly Alekseevich AU - Grinko,Nikolai AU - Strugatsky,Arkady Natanovich ED - Moskovskaëiìa kinostudiëiìa "Mosfilm". ED - Russian Cinema Council TI - Stalker AV - PN1995.9.S26 S585 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - [Moscow, Russia], [New York, NY] PB - RUSCICO, [Distributed by] Kino International KW - Fantasy films KW - Russian drama KW - 19th century KW - Science fiction films KW - Film adaptations KW - Foreign films KW - Feature films N1 - Based on the short novel Piknik na obochine (Roadside picnic) by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky; DVD release of the 1979 motion picture; In original aspect ratio (1.33:1); Special features include: video interviews with composer, cameraman, and set decorator; 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); cast and crew biographies and filmographies; photo album; disc 1. The movie -- disc 2. extras; Director of photography, Alexander Kaidanovsky ; editor, L. Feæiginova ; music, Eduard Artemeyev; Alisa Freindlikh, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko N2 - 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 ER -