155 min.
In Russian with English subtitles.

Based on the short novel "Piknik na obochine" (Picnic by the roadside) by Arkady and Boris Strugatzki.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979.
Director: Andrei Tarkovskii.
Producer: Aleksandra Demidova.
Cameraman: Aleksandr Kniazinskii.
Editor, Liudmila Feiginova.
Music, Eduard Artemév .
Cast: Alisa Freindlikh, Aleksandr Kaidanovskii, Anatolii Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko.

Summary
At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by  unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must face a room where the center of power and evil confronts them and the future of mankind.