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Solaris, 1972

Starring: Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk

Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky

Written by: Andrei Tarkovsky

Language: German, Russian

Country: Soviet Union

Runtime: 165 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:8.0

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The mood of Solaris is mind bending, contemplative, and atmospheric. The plot centers around space travel, obsession, and space and aliens. It is a drama, foreign, and sci-fi movie. Stylistically, Solaris is futuristic, is surreal, and is talky. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. The pacing is slow. Solaris is based on a book. The movie is known for being a Cannes festival winner, a masterpiece, and essential viewing.

Summary of Solaris

SOLARIS, director Andrei Tarkovsky's science fiction cult classic, presents an uncompromisingly unique and poetic meditation on space travel and its physical and existential ramifications. When a long-standing Russian space station hovering above the planet Solaris begins to report strange phenomena, Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis), an eager and intrepid cosmonaut, departs for the station in order to investigate. Warned by former Solaris specialists that the planet presents incomprehensible obstacles, Kelvin is nevertheless secure in his mission. However, the minute he steps foot onto the haunted and desolate space station, everything changes. Kelvin learns that of the three members left on board, one has killed himself and the remaining two have seemingly become schizophrenic recluses. When Kelvin's dead ex-wife appears out of the shadows, the reports that Solaris is a thinking being capable of reading human minds and materializing their desires and memories are proven true. As Kelvin joins the rest of the crew in a seemingly life-or-death struggle to understand this phenomena, Tarkovsky crafts a mind-altering earthbound space odyssey. Filled with visions of humanity versus itself, SOLARIS takes the philosophical investigations of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY to extravagant lengths and offers no answers except this: The only frontier humanity has yet to conquer is that of its own existence.

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Language:	German, Russian
Country:	Soviet Union
Release date:	November 1972
Runtime:	165 min
Awards:	Cannes

Awards

Awarded Jury Prize at the 1972 Cannes

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Donatas Banionis

as Kris Kelvin

Natalya Bondarchuk

as Hari

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TV Guide

Slow, but ravishingly beautiful and charged with a real poignancy. Full Review

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by: Staff (Not Credited)

Chicago Tribune

An amazing celluloid poem by a filmmaker whom Ingmar Bergman called "the greatest." He very nearly was. He was also, perhaps, too pure a creator and reckless a citizen to survive unscathed. Full Review

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by: Michael Wilmington

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Im not really sure how to judge this one fairly. ----- On the one hand, its in bad need of some cutting/re-editing, it is seriously just too long. But on the other hand, I wasnt exactly bored watching it; I was more...complacent, so to speak. And at... Read and rate it

26.February.2011
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by: Andrew
Andrew rated this movie7/10Good

Tarkovsky's genius and visual poetry create a deeply thought-provoking interpretation of Lem's science fiction account of the eerie consequences of human contact with an alien lifeforce able to bring one's deepest memories into material reality. A... Read and rate it

11.October.2009
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by: Gertrude
Gertrude rated this movie0/10

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