Stalker
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“There's no need to speak. You must only...concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder.”
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
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Cast
11 people
Alisa Freyndlikh
Stalker's Wife
Known for
Office Romance
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Stalker
Known for
Ten Little Indians
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Alexander Kaidanovsky
Stalker
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Writer
Known for
Andrei Rublev
Solaris
Anatoli Alexejewitsch Solonizyn
Writer
Mykola Hrynko
Professor
Known for
Andrei Rublev
Solaris
Natalya Abramova
Marta
Faime Jurno
Writer's Companion
Also in
Variant 'Omega'
Pilot Pirx's Inquest
Evgeniy Kostin
Lyuger, Owner of Cafe
Also in
The Dawns Here are Quiet
А зори здесь тихие...
Raimo Rendi
Police Patrol
No other roles listed
Vladimir Zamanskiy
Professor's Telephone Interlocutor (voice) (uncredited)
Known for
The Steamroller and the Violin
Trial on the Road
Andrei Tarkovsky Director · Arkadiy Strugatskiy Writer Boris Strugatskiy Writer
Director Screenplay Production designer
Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer Author
Arkadiy Strugatskiy
Writer Author
Boris Strugatskiy
Author
Arseny Tarkovsky
Composer
Eduard Artemyev
Cinematographer
Aleksandr Knyazhinsky
Cinematographer
Leonid Kalashnikov
Editor
Lyudmila Feiginova
Production designer
Aleksan
Production designer
Aleksandr Boym
Costume designer
Nelli Fomina
Worldwide gross $37M · Budget $120K · United States release January 17, 2014
Box office
Budget
$120,000
Worldwide gross
$36,784,519
Gross vs. budget
306.5×
Production
Mosfilm
Production · Studio
Russia · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Сталкер
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · May 25, 1979
Limited theatrical · Mosfilm Studio
United States · January 17, 2014
Limited theatrical · Harvard Film Archive
United States
October 20, 1982 · Premiere · New York City, New York
April 29, 2017 · Premiere · Montclair Film Festival (Digitally Restored Version)
May 5, 2017 · Limited theatrical · Digitally Restored Version
Argentina
November 12, 1981 · Theatrical
January 27, 2001 · Premiere · Ciclo grandes clásicos europeos
Belgium
November 13, 1980 · Theatrical · Gent
Brazil
December 26, 1980 · Theatrical
January 1, 2010 · Physical · DVD CPC-UMES BR
Canada
October 15, 2002 · Physical · DVD
Czechia
April 15, 1999 · Limited theatrical · Projekt 100
Denmark
August 24, 1981 · Theatrical
September 30, 2017 · Premiere · CPH: PIX (Restored Version)
Finland
August 15, 1980 · Theatrical
France
May 13, 1980 · Premiere · Cannes Film Festival
November 18, 1981 · Theatrical
September 2, 2009 · Theatrical · Re-release
June 8, 2016 · Theatrical · Re-release (Restored Version)
July 5, 2017 · Theatrical · Re-release (Restored Version)
Germany
February 16, 1981 · Premiere · Berlin International Film Festival
May 1, 1981 · Theatrical · East Germany
April 17, 1987 · TV · Das Erste
Ireland
April 17, 1981 · Theatrical
Italy
December 24, 1980 · Theatrical · Livorno
January 30, 1981 · Theatrical
September 3, 2016 · Premiere · Venice Film Festival (Digitally Restored Version)
November 1, 2018 · Premiere · Trieste Science+Fiction Festival (Digitally Restored Version)
Mexico
October 15, 2002 · Physical · DVD
August 3, 2018 · Premiere · Cineteca Nacional
Netherlands
April 17, 1980 · Theatrical
August 22, 2016 · Physical · DVD
October 4, 2018 · Theatrical · Digitally Restored Version
October 8, 2023 · Premiere · Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam
Russia
May 19, 1980 · Theatrical
Russia
January 11, 2011 · Physical · DVD
Slovakia
March 11, 2006 · Physical
Spain
November 5, 1984 · Theatrical
Sweden
April 13, 1981 · Theatrical
Türkiye
September 27, 1991 · TV
United Kingdom
December 2, 1980 · Theatrical
August 17, 1991 · Physical · VHS
January 21, 2002 · Physical · DVD
March 11, 2005 · Theatrical · Re-release
September 22, 2016 · Physical · Blu-ray
July 24, 2017 · Physical · The Criterion Collection Blu-ray
Uruguay
August 8, 1984 · Theatrical
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