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
- 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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