

Stalker
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $120K
- Box office
- $36.8M
- Language
- Russian
- based on novel or book
- guard
- wish
- stalker
- alien
- strugatsky
- writer
- soldier
- existentialism
- zone
- complex
- beautifully filmed
Top billed cast
Behind the camera
Director
Music
Produced in
Soviet Union
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNRNew York City, New York20 Oct 1982
- Theatrical (limited)Harvard Film Archive17 Jan 2014
- PremiereMontclair Film Festival (Digitally Restored Version)29 Apr 2017
- Theatrical (limited)NRDigitally Restored Version5 May 2017
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical2 Dec 1980
- PhysicalPGVHS17 Aug 1991
- PhysicalPGDVD21 Jan 2002
- TheatricalPGRe-release11 Mar 2005
- PhysicalPGBlu-ray22 Sept 2016
- PhysicalPGThe Criterion Collection Blu-ray 24 Jul 2017
CanadaCA
- PhysicalDVD15 Oct 2002
ArgentinaAR
- TheatricalATP12 Nov 1981
- PremiereCiclo grandes clásicos europeos27 Jan 2001
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical12Gent13 Nov 1980
BrazilBR
- Theatrical26 Dec 1980
- Physical12DVD CPC-UMES BR1 Jan 2010
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical (limited)Projekt 10015 Apr 1999
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical24 Aug 1981
- PremiereCPH: PIX (Restored Version)30 Sept 2017
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1215 Aug 1980
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival13 May 1980
- TheatricalTP18 Nov 1981
- TheatricalTPRe-release2 Sept 2009
- TheatricalTPRe-release (Restored Version)8 Jun 2016
- TheatricalTPRe-release (Restored Version)5 Jul 2017
GermanyDE
- Premiere12Berlin International Film Festival16 Feb 1981
- TheatricalEast Germany1 May 1981
- TVDas Erste17 Apr 1987
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG17 Apr 1981
Frequently asked questions
Stalker was released on 25 May 1979.
Audience reviews
4- I
Infra
9/17/2017
This movie is like an onion, has multiple layers. To understand it, you have to be very careful and pacient. You have to focus on movie and not doing anything else while you watch it, because if you don't, you won't understand it. http://cinematol.ro/pareri-filme-stalker-calauza-1979/
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/14/2022
This really is the cinematic equivalent of "be careful for you wish for". Two characters - a teacher and a professor, seek out a "stalker" who can lead them through the maze of challenges that culminates in an heavily restricted area know as the zone. Why? Rumour has it, that when in that zone you may make wishes that will immediately come true. What is this place? Is it real, imaginary, alien, all of these - or it i…
- F2/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
5/31/2023
**More style than content.** This was my first contact with the cinematographic work of Andrei Tarkovsky, a Soviet filmmaker who would end his career outside his native country when he fell into disgrace for allegedly spending too much money on films that were not worthy of the expense. A regrettable attitude, but typical of countries that prefer to spend money on missiles than on support for culture and education…
- C10/10
CarsonTrent
12/23/2025
**Metaphysical themes explored in Stalker** The three main characters are Archetypes: Writer, Professor (scientist) and Stalker (seeker). One is the Stalker which is the seeker, a man searching for redemption which has faith ( Faith is an unreserved opening of one's mind to whatever the truth turns out to be / opposed to belief which is opening up to the truth as long as it fits with preconceived ideas and wish…
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