![]() Only by following his lead (which often involves taking the longest, most frustrating route) can the Writer and the Scientist make it alive to the bunker and the room. The Stalker is the hired guide for the journey who has, through repeated visits to the Zone, become accustomed to its complex traps, pitfalls, and subtle distortions. ![]() In the Zone, there is said to be a bunker, and in the bunker: a magical room which has the power to make wishes come true. It seems as if an unknown intelligence is actively thwarting any attempt to penetrate its borders. Objects change places, the landscape shifts and rearranges itself. The film follows three men - the Scientist (Nikolai Grinko), the Writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn), and the Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) - as they travel through a mysterious and forbidden territory in the Russian wilderness called the "Zone." In the Zone, nothing is what it seems. , was adapted from the novel Picnic by the Roadside by brothers Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky. ![]() , an allegorical science fiction film like his earlier ![]()
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