Stalker

Stalker (Russian: Сталкер) is a 1979 Soviet science fantasy film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. It follows a figure known as the Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky) who guides a melancholic Writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and a Professor (Nikolai Grinko) through a hazardous wasteland called the Zone to a mysterious Room said to grant innermost desires. Blending science fiction, fantasy and philosophical drama with cinematography by Alexander Knyazhinsky and music by Eduard Artemyev, the Mosfilm production was shot in Estonia and Moscow and is now regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.