Anatoliy Solonitsyn

A man known only as the Stalker guides a writer and a professor through a bleak, post-apocalyptic landscape to a mysterious room said to grant one's deepest desires.

Cosmonauts on a space station have strange hallucinations which seem to originate from the planet they are orbiting.

Winter 1942, Nazi-occupied Belarus. Two Soviet partisans are in search of food supplies for their unit. Commandeering livestock from the local village's collaborationist, they try to get back to their unit, only to be spotted by German troops. The partisans manage to flee from the ensued firefight, but one of them is wounded, setting them on the path of difficult choices as they try to survive.