Stalker was proposed for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Demetrios Matheou.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphys­ical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide - the Stalker - leads a writer and a professor into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, and a meditation on film itself - Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.

This screening will finish at 18:11.

Please note, this screening will take place in our new Screen 3, which will not yet have step-free access whilst we wait for our platform lift to be installed.

Cast:
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko