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Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Genres: Space Adventure, Psychological Sci-Fi, Science Fiction
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Summary:
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 ... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Natalya Bondarchuk - (Khari)
Jüri Järvet - (Snauth)
Donatas Banionis - (Kris Kelvin)
Anatoli Solonitsin - (Sartorius)
Vladislav Dvorzhetsky - (Burton)
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Review:
Conceived partly as the anti-2001:_A_Space_Odyssey (1968), Andrei_Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972) weaves a hypnotic fable about love, humanity, and memory out of its science fiction premise. Reinstating the detritus of everyday existence absent from 2001's future vision, Tarkovsky's tracking shots and long takes reveal the space statio... Continue >>

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