Film
Stalker PG
Sun 13 Sep 2026
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s second foray into science fiction after Solaris is a surreal and disturbing vision of the future. Adapted from Arkady & Boris Sturgatsky’s novel ‘Roadside Picnic’, it has been described as one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.
Deep within the Zone, a bleak and devastated forbidden landscape, lies a mysterious room with the power to grant the deepest wishes of those strong enough to make the hazardous journey there. Desperate to reach it, a scientist and a writer approach the Stalker, one of the few able to navigate the Zone’s menacing terrain, and begin a dangerous trek into the unknown.
This QUAD Essentials screening will feature and introduction and post screening discussion from Dr Andrew Fergus Wilson (University of Derby).
