Solaris (1972)

Director

• Andrei Tarkovsky

Starring

• Natalya Bondarchuk
• Donatas Banionis
• Juri Jarvet
• Anatoli Solonitsin [Anatoli Solonitsyn]
• Vladislav Dvorjetzki

Last On

00:35-03:55 Thu 30th Jan 2020 195m
Film4

Synopsis

For some, director Andrei Tarkovsky's philosophical cult movie is the Soviet equivalent of 2001; for others, it's an obscure intellectual exercise. Based on Polish writer Stanislaw Lem's 1961 novel, the tale involves astronauts on an alien planet who are confronted by illusions from their subconscious memories (usually their morose girlfriends back on Earth). Tarkovsky's highly influential and cerebral science-fiction epic is ponderous, very talky and contains minimal special effects, but its remote strangeness exerts a compelling hypnotic power that's often extraordinarily potent.