Rating: PG
Genre: Science Fiction
Release Date: 11/26/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Rus
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 169 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Criterion

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, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Natalya Bondarchuk - Khari
Jüri Järvet - Snauth
Donatas Banionis - Kris Kelvin
Anatoli Solonitsin - Sartorius
Vladislav Dvorzhetsky - Burton
Nikolai Grinko - Father
Sos Sarkisyan - Gibarian
Tamara Ogorodnikova - Aunt Anna

Production:
Andrei Tarkovsky - Director
Eduard Artemyev - Composer
Andrei Tarkovsky Fridrikh Gorenshtein - Screen Writer
Mikhail Romadin - Art Director
Vadim Yusov - Cinematographer
Stanislaw Lem - Book Author

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