Special features of this DVD: video interview with photography director, A. Knyazhinsky ; video interview with production designer, R. Safiullin ; video interview with set decorator, Rashit Safiullin ; excerpt from "The steamroller and the violin," Andrei Tarkovsky's diploma film at the Soviet film school VGIK ; documentary about A. Tarkovsky's house, "Memory" ; cast and crew biographies/filmographies ; photo album ; Dolby Digital ; scene selection.

Based on the novel "Piknik na obochine" ("The roadside picnic") by Arkadii Strugatskii and Boris Strugatskii.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.

Camera, Aleksandr Knaizhinsky ; music, Eduard Artemyev ; costume designer, Andrei Tarkovsky ; editor, Lyudmila Feiginova.

Aleksander Kaidanovsky, Nikolai Grinko, Anatoli Solonitsin, Alice Friendlich.

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.

Not rated.

DVD.

In Russian, dubbed English or dubbed French dialog, with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles.