Solaris

    Solaris
    1972

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Donatas BanionisKris Kelvin
    • Natalya BondarchukHari
    • Jüri JärvetDr. Snaut
    • Anatoliy SolonitsynDr. Sartorius
    • Nikolay GrinkoKelvin's Father
    • Vladislav DvorzhetskyHenri Berton
    • Georgiy TeykhProf. Messenger
    • Sos SargsyanDr. Gibarian
    • Olga BarnetKelvin's Mother
    • Tamara OgorodnikovaAnna

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Christian Science Monitor

      Stands with the greatest science-fiction movies ever made.
    • 100

      Los Angeles Times

      A dazzlingly imaginative work with awesome production values and special effects that bear comparison to those of "2001."
    • 100

      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.
    • 90

      Washington Post

      His (Tarkovsky's) pictures, and his sounds -- such as the symphonic drip of raindrops in a wooded pond -- tell more than just the immediate story; they rejuvenate the mind.
    • 90

      Chicago Reader

      Tarkovsky's eerie mystic parable is given substance by the filmmaker's boldly original grasp of film language and the remarkable performances by all the principals.
    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Routinely called Tarkovsky's reply to Kubrick's "2001" -- But Kubrick's film is outward, charting man's next step in the universe, while Tarkovsky's is inward, asking about the nature and reality of the human personality.
    • 80

      TV Guide Magazine

      Slow, but ravishingly beautiful and charged with a real poignancy.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      The most pop film the great Russian filmmaker ever made.

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