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Overview

User Rating:
8.0/10   16,540 votes
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Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Writers:
Stanislaw Lem (novel)
Fridrikh Gorenshtein (screenplay) ...
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Contact:
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Release Date:
20 March 1972 (Soviet Union) more
Plot:
The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence... more | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Ten Forward: I Read That Somewhere
 (From Airlock Alpha. 24 February 2009, 5:31 AM, PST)

Ten Forward: I Read That Somewhere
 (From Airlock Alpha. 24 February 2009, 5:31 AM, PST)

User Comments:
had to watch it twice more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Natalya Bondarchuk ... Hari
Donatas Banionis ... Kris Kelvin
Jüri Järvet ... Dr. Snaut
Vladislav Dvorzhetsky ... Henri Berton
Nikolai Grinko ... Kelvin's Father
Anatoli Solonitsyn ... Dr. Sartorius
Sos Sargsyan ... Dr. Gibarian (as S. Sarkisyan)
Olga Barnet ... Kelvin's Mother (as O. Barnet)
Tamara Ogorodnikova ... Aunt Anna
Georgi Tejkh ... Prof. Messenger (as G. Tejkh)
Yulian Semyonov ... Chairman at Scientific Conference (as Yu. Semyonov)
Olga Kizilova ... Gibarian's Guest (as O. Kizilova)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vitalik Kerdimun (as V. Kerdimun)
Tatyana Malykh
Aleksandr Misharin (as A. Misharin)
Bagrat Oganesyan (as B. Oganesyan)
V. Statsinsky
Valentina Sumenova (as V. Sumenova)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Solaris (UK) (USA)
Солярис (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Solaris (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Solaris (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
Solaris (West Germany) [de]
Solaris (Serbia) [sr]
Solaris (Denmark) [da]
Solaris (Poland) [pl]
Solaris (Czechoslovakia) [cs]
Solaris (Hungary) [hu]
Solaris (Finland) [fi]
Wakusei sorarisu (Japan) [ja]
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Runtime:
165 min | Italy:115 min (first release)
Country:
Soviet Union
Language:
German | Russian
Color:
Black and White | Color (Sovcolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
It is quite common to hear this film compared to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), however, Tarkovsky had not seen that film before shooting Solaris. When he did get round to seeing 2001, he criticised it for being "sterile". more
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: The camera crew is reflected in the video screen as Chris watches Dr. Gibarian's message. more
Quotes:
Kris Kelvin: You mean more to me than any scientific truth. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Free Enterprise (1998) more
Soundtrack:
Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ more

FAQ

Who composed the background music of this movie and what is the name of that?
What is the significance of the water dripping inside?
How did Gibarian die?
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173 out of 195 people found the following comment useful:-
had to watch it twice, 19 January 1999
9/10
Author: gaddis from california

I'm just starting out into the vast world of foreign film and having seen this film on many a video store shelf, and knowing that it was considered a sci-fi classic, I thought it would be a good way to spend an evening. Based on the case I was expecting something along the line of typical American sci-fi. Needless to say I was wrong.

I watched Solyaris twice in two days, because the first time I saw it I knew that I hadn't processed even a quarter of what I knew was there. I was taken completely aback. The second viewing was extremely rewarding.

It was unusual for me, raised as I was on the sledgehammer moralizing and we'll make our point so obvious that there's no way you can miss it because we have no respect for your intelligence way of American film. I'm a huge literature buff, and this was one of the very few films I've confronted that is thoughtful and has so many things to say yet does it in a literary or poetic fashion.

You will get out of this film what you bring to it. I've been to so many movies where the audience is not actually participating, it's being attacked. But true art is not domineering; it woos you.

So to sum up, I greatly appreciated Tarkovsky's unwillingness to manipulate the viewer. It showed that he had respect for me as a thinking soul, and it is this love and respect for humanity which makes this a truly great film.

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