A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
- Marta, doch Stalkera
- (as Natasha Abramova)
- Sobesednitsa Pisatelya
- (as F. Yurna)
- Patrulnyy politseyskiy
- (as R. Rendi)
- Professor
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Andrei Tarkovsky spent about a year shooting all of the exterior scenes with cinematographer Georgi Rerberg using Kodak 5247 film. This film stock was newer to Soviet laboratories of the time, and some of the original negatives were destroyed by a processing error at the laboratory. Part of the film had to be shot again with a new cinematographer, Aleksandr Knyazhinskiy. This contributed to the film's two-part narrative structure. Allegedly, the newly shot footage strayed farther away from the source novel Roadside Picnic, and had a different look. Asked about this, director Tarkovsky said "no mother gives birth to the same child twice."
- GoofsAt about 23 minutes, when Stalker, writer and professor are driving in their car they have to hide for a motorcyclist. In the scene the motorcyclist comes from the right. From an opposite angle of view, he still comes from the right, where it should have been from the left.
- Quotes
Stalker: May everything come true. May they believe. And may they laugh at their passions. For what they call passion is not really the energy of the soul, but merely friction between the soul and the outside world. But, above all, may they believe in themselves and become as helpless as children. For softness is great and strength is worthless. When a man is born, he is soft and pliable. When he dies, he is strong and hard. When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life. That which has become hard shall not triumph.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Distant (2002)
- SoundtracksLa Marseillaise
Written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
- smartestjane
- Jun 5, 2003
Details
Box office
- Budget
- RUR 1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $292,049
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,537
- Sep 15, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $395,274
- Runtime2 hours 42 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1