19 January 2012 8:53 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
The Twitch-presented Attack The Bloc series of Cold War era science fiction from the Eastern Bloc continues on Saturday at the Tiff Bell Lightbox with a 3:00 pm screening of Andrei Tarkovsky's classic Stalker.The world has been ravaged by an unknown apocalypse, the force of the destruction so great that reality itself has become distorted in an area known simply as the Zone. Heavily guarded by the military, the Zone reportedly contains a room that makes one's greatest dreams come true; but to breach the fortifications and survive the Zone's warped physics and deadly traps, one requires the services of a "Stalker," a special guide with a unique knowledge of this bizarre terrain. Acquiring the help of one such Stalker (Alexander Kaidanovsky), two nameless »
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