cinema at the museum: stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 Soviet science fiction film Stalker plays as part of Cinema at the Museum's September international film series. The story follows a guide who leads two men into the Zone, a mysterious, physics-defying place guarded by soldiers and barbed wire, where deep desires can be granted. The film runs 161 minutes in Russian with English subtitles and explores themes of existential questioning, moral ambiguity, and human connection. Tickets are ten dollars, though museum members and youth under eighteen get in free. The film contains mild violence, coarse language, and some frightening scenes, and is recommended for audiences thirteen and up.