Three journey to where fantasies are fulfilled. Criterion Collection Year 1979 Video Release 2002-10-15 Genre Science Fiction MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 163 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis This science fiction milestone from director Andrei Tarkovsky Solaris takes you into the Zone, a mysterious, guarded realm containing a mystical Room in which occupants' secret dreams come true. Stalker, a man able to lead others to this holy grail, escorts a writer and a scientist through this foreboding territory and confronts several unexpected challenges along the way. Based on the novel Roadside Picnic by Russian sci-fi writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Director Andrei Tarkovsky Cast Andrei Tarkovsky; Alexandre Kaidanovsky; Anatoly Solonitsyn; Nicolai Grinko; Alisa Freindlich; Natasha Abramova; F. Yurma; E. Kostin; R. Rendi