New 2K digital restoration delivers enhanced picture and sound for a superior viewing experience
Uncompressed monaural soundtrack preserves the original audio quality for authentic listening
Includes new interviews with Geoff Dyer, Rashid Safiullin, and Eduard Artemyev for deeper insight into the film
Exclusive interviews from the mid-1990s with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky provide behind-the-scenes context
Essays by Mark Le Fanu and new cover art by Tamás Horvath add cultural and artistic value
Summarized by Shop
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 professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the