Metrograph

Tarkovsky’s stunning, haunted sepia-toned sci-fi masterpiece follows a scientist and a writer who, living in a broken-down totalitarian dystopia, recruit the help of a “Stalker”—a kind of post-apocalyptic Sherpa—to guide them on a voyage of self-discovery, passing through the bleak, otherworldly Zone in hopes of finding therein a haven that will fulfill their secret desires. An enigmatic, austere, and utterly immersive experience that combines religious allegory and political prophesy, and has kept cinephiles debating its meaning for some 45 years.

Distributor: Janus Films