![]() ![]() And now there is another side to the practice. The book inspired Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 cult-classic film Stalker.īeyond youthful rebellion, the motivations of the modern stalkers are complex, and speak to the national trauma that resulted from a tragedy whose effects will be felt for generations. Written by brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, it tells the story of contaminated “zones” created on Earth by aliens, in which rogue stalkers roam, hoping to recover valuable alien technology. The name originates from the 1972 Russian science fiction novel Roadside Picnic. Existing in the shadows of this highly commodified industry is the secretive subculture of the “stalkers”: mostly young Ukrainian men who sneak into the Zone illegally to explore the vast wilderness on their own terms. ![]()
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