Event Details - 'Stalker'

The title character guides a professor and a writer through the government-restricted "Zone" in search of the "Room" — a place where wishes are said to come true. Helmed by the critically acclaimed Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, the film ranks No. 29 on the British Film Institute's 50 Greatest Films of All Time. A Bates International Science Fiction Festival screening. (USSR, 1979; 102 min.) FMI nfaries@bates.edu.