Picture Set of The Month - May - Posters For The Film 'Stalker'

'Stalker' is a 1979 Soviet science fiction film,
filmed in uncertain present day dystopian setting. 

The writers of the film were Arkady and Boris Strugatsy
from their 1972 book 'Roadside Picnic'.

It is a 'quest' film, 'The Zone' is a place in which there exists 
a room which grants a person their innermost desires.
 Guides to the place are called Stalkers. The Professor
is one such guide who takes a depressed writer and a scientist
through the wasteland that is the outer layer of The Zone.  

The film combined elements of philosophy, theology, science
and fantasy in a way that took the dogma out of each element.

The idea of getting past guards to investigate 
a derelict industrial landscape to find the room
that grants people their wishes grants a poetic
ennobling of that post-industrial world.

The men do eventually find the room, and find their
selfishness or altruism reflected back at them within it
as well as telling the story of a previous stalker/guide. 
To enter the room requires an act of sacrifice. The film's  
film's ultimate message is one of struggle and the need
for selflessness to survive.
 through struggle