Solyaris (Solaris) (1976)
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96% of critics liked it
(45 reviews) -
89% of users liked it
(24,598 ratings)
Based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem, Solaris centers on widowed psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donata Banionis), who is sent to a space station orbiting a water-dominated planet called Solaris to investigate the mysterious death of a doctor, as well as the mental problems plaguing the dwindling number of… More Based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem, Solaris centers on widowed psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donata Banionis), who is sent to a space station orbiting a water-dominated planet called Solaris to investigate the mysterious death of a doctor, as well as the mental problems plaguing the dwindling number of cosmonauts on the station. Finding the remaining crew to be behaving oddly and aloof, Kelvin is more than surprised when he meets his seven-years-dead wife Khari (Natalya Bondarchuk) on the station. It quickly becomes apparent that Solaris possesses something that brings out repressed memories and obsessions within the cosmonauts on the space station, leaving Kelvin to question his perception of reality. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, Solaris was remade by Steven Soderbergh in 2002. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
- Directed By
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Written By
- Andrei Tarkovsky, Friedrich Gorenstein
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy
- In Theaters
- Oct 6, 1976 Wide
- On DVD
- Nov 26, 2002
- Studio
- Kino International
Critic Reviews
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Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine
The effects are scanty, the drama gloomy, the philosophy of the film thick as a cloud of ozone. The plot is not all that original either.
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, Variety
Andrei Tarkovsky spins a strange, slow but absorbing parable on life and love in the guise of a sci-fi theme.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
More an exploration of inner than of outer space, 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.
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Dave Calhoun, Time Out
It's a smart response to the superficial excesses of the sci-fi genre.
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Richard Eder, New York Times
This complex and sometimes very beautiful film is about humanity but hardly at all about politics.
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Cast
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Natalya Bondarchuk
as Khari
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Jüri Järvet
as Snauth
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Donatas Banionis
as Kris Kelvin
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Anatoli Solonitsin
as Sartorius
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Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
as Burton
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Nikolai Grinko
as Father
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Sos Sarkisyan
as Gibarian
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Tamara Ogorodnikova
as Aunt Anna


