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Released
1979 · FILM

Stalker

A former Stalker, fresh out of prison, reluctantly guides a reckless writer and a brilliant but unstable physicist into the deadly, lawless Zone, where supernatural forces and their own conflicting desires threaten to destroy them all.

“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.”

Directed by
Andrei Tarkovsky, Evgeniy Tsymbal
Written by
Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy
Rated
MPA · Not Rated
Runtime
162 min
Language
RU
DramaSci-Fi

Synopsis

Near a gray and unnamed city lies the Zone, a place surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by soldiers, where the normal laws of physics are often disrupted by anomalies. A stalker leads two men into the Zone, specifically to an area where deep-seated desires are said to be granted.

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A crew of 57+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lyudmila FeyginovaShot by Aleksandr KnyazhinskiyScored by Eduard ArtemyevDesigned by Aleksandr BoymCostumes by Nelli Fomina

Box Office

1979 · Box office

Produced on a $120K budget

Production budget

$120K

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Also known as

  • Stalkerde
  • Stalkeren
  • Stalkerfr
  • (English)Stalker
  • (Bulgarian)Сталкер
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • RussiaMay 25, 1979
  • NetherlandsApr 17, 1980
  • FranceMay 13, 1980
  • FinlandAug 15, 1980

Companies

ProductionMosfilm, Vtoroe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

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