Stalker

Contributor(s):

Language: Russian Original language: Russian Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 888.Publisher: [USA] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]Description: 2 videodiscs (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bookletISBN:

9781681433301
1681433303

Subject(s):

Feature films -- Science fiction

LOC classification:

PN1997 .S735 2017

Cast: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko.Summary: 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Visual Material	Whitecliffe Library Audio Visual	General	DVD 334 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Disc 1. Feature film	Available	Accompanying material - A booklet		0013376
Visual Material	Whitecliffe Library Audio Visual	General	DVD 334 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Disc 2. Special features	Available

Title from container.

Product number 715515201018

Special features: New 2k digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; new interview with Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: a Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room; interviews from 2000 with set designer Rashit Safiullin and composer Eduard Artemyev; interview from the mid-1990s with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky ; plus: essay by critic Mark Le Fanu.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.

Aspect ratio, 1.37:1.

Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko.

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.

DVD; Aspect ratio, 1.37:1; Monaural.

Russian dialogue; with English subtitles.

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