Stalker (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Andrei Tarkovsky s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide the Stalker leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place 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.

Starring: Alisa Freyndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsin, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, N. Grinko, Alist Freindlikh, Natasha Abramova, F Yurna, F. Yurma, E. Kostin, R. Rendi

Director: Alexandra Demidova, Bam Margera, Derek Freda, Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville