Solaris

The planet where nightmares come true…

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Science Fiction
Drama
Mystery

Overview

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Keywords

space travel
astronaut
based on novel or book
1970s
hallucination
extraterrestrial technology
soviet union
loss of sense of reality
subconsciousness

Details

Status: Released
Release date: March 20, 1972
Original language: Russian
Spoken languages: Russian
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm,Unit Four,Creative Unit of Writers & Cinema Workers
Cast: Natalya Bondarchuk,Donatas Banionis,Jüri Järvet,Vladislav Dvorzhetsky,Mykola Hrynko,Anatoliy Solonitsyn,Olga Barnet,Vitalik Kerdimun,Olga Kizilova,Tatyana Malykhand 8 more
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer: Andrei Tarkovsky,Stanisław Lem,L. Lazarev,Fridrikh Gorenshteyn,Ninel Boyarova,Lev Lupichev,Iosif Shklovskiy
Producer: Viacheslav Tarasov
Cinematography: Vadim Yusov
Music: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov,Eduard Artemyev
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0069293