In the film, a "stalker" is a professional guide to the Zone, someone having the ability and desire to cross the border into the dangerous and forbidden place with a specific goal. Tarkovsky also wrote "Stalker is from the word 'to stalk'-to creep." in a 1976 diary entry. In Roadside Picnic, "Stalker" was a common nickname for men engaged in the illegal enterprise of prospecting for and smuggling alien artifacts out of the "Zone".
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The meaning of the word "stalk" was derived from its use by the Strugatsky brothers in their novel Roadside Picnic, upon which the movie is based. The film sold over 4 million tickets, mostly in the Soviet Union, against a budget of 1 million Soviet rubles. Upon release, the film garnered mixed reviews, but in subsequent years it has been recognized as a classic of world cinema, with the British Film Institute ranking it #29 on its list of the "50 Greatest Films of All Time". Stalker was released on Goskino in May 1979. The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the "Stalker" ( Alexander Kaidanovsky), who takes his two clients-a melancholic writer ( Anatoly Solonitsyn) seeking inspiration, and a professor ( Nikolai Grinko) seeking scientific discovery-to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the "Zone", where there supposedly exists a room which grants a person's innermost desires.
The film combines elements of science fiction with dramatic philosophical and psychological themes. Stalker (Russian: Сталкер, IPA: ) is a 1979 Soviet science fiction art drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic.
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