Stalker

In person: production designer Jeannine Oppewall

Three men search a dangerous, restricted area known as the Zone looking for a secret room that supposedly grants wishes. Director Andrei Tarkovsky (Solaris, 1972) faced unusual hardships during production, including a literally toxic location and problems with film stock that forced nearly an entire film’s worth of reshoots. But the result—one of Tarkovsky's boldest and most challenging projects—has been cited as an influential work by directors and production designers, with its stark and evocative imagery credited to Tarkovsky himself as art director, working with Aleksandr Boym and set decorator Rashit Safiullin.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.

1979 | 161 min | USSR | Color | Russian | DCP

DIRECTED BY: Andrei Tarkovsky

WRITTEN BY: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky, Andrei Tarkovsky

WITH: Alisa Freindlich, Alekander Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko