Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 162 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- guard
- wish
- stalker
- alien
- strugatsky
- writer
- soldier
- existentialism
- zone
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Alisa Freyndlikh
Stalker's Wife
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Stalker
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Writer
Mykola Hrynko
Professor
- Natalya Abramova — Marta
- Faime Jurno — Writer's Companion
- Evgeniy Kostin — Lyuger, Owner of Cafe
- Raimo Rendi — Police Patrol
- Vladimir Zamanskiy — Professor's Telephone Interlocutor (voice) (uncredited)
- Directed
- Andrei Tarkovsky
Production
- Rating
- 8.1 / 10 · 2,591 ratings
- Studio
- Mosfilm
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
