1972 2h 47m Andrei Tarkovsky

Solaris

Name: Solaris
Genre: Drama, Science-Fiction
Released: 1972
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky

★ 7.9 IMDb

Drama Science-Fiction

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Writers Friedrich Gorenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky

DP Vadim Yusov

Music Eduard Artemyev

Essays and Criticism

On Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky's The Fog By Violeta Kovacsics by Violeta Kovacsics, FIPRESCI Notebook Soundtrack Mix #7: Poetic Refrain — The Music and Sounds of Tarkovsky by Florence Scott-Anderton, MUBI Notebook Tarkovsky, or the Burning House by Petr Král, Screening the Past

In conversation with other films

Thoughts Trip Into Trap by Cristina Nord, FIPRESCI Star Wars: Laura Poitras’ Astro Noise by Jerry White, Cinema Scope

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