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Overview

User Rating:
8.0/10   17,506 votes
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Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Writers:
Stanislaw Lem (novel)
Fridrikh Gorenshtein (screenplay) ...
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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:
(5 articles)
Top 10 Films of 2009 so far.
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Blade Runner Named Top Sci-fi Movie
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A unique experience more (171 total)

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)
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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
Filming Locations:
Akasaka, Minato, Japan more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The extended scene following Berton as he rides back to the city was filmed in Osaka and Tokyo. Foreign travel was not easily approved, and the reason this long scene was left in the movie was probably to justify that trip for the director and crew. A Japanese city circa 1970 may not look very futuristic to modern audiences, but its impression on Soviet viewers at that time of the film's release was probably quite different. Tarkovski's diary reveals that they just missed the World's Fair, and they may have planned to shoot footage at it that would have looked far more futuristic. more
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: A shadow in the mirror behind Khari in the library. more
Quotes:
Hari: Did you ever think of me?
Kris Kelvin: Only when I was sad.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Tempo di viaggio (1983) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ more

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What is the significance of the water dripping inside?
Who composed the background music of this movie and what is the name of that?
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57 out of 62 people found the following comment useful.
A unique experience, 7 January 2006
10/10
Author: vbertola from Italy

It's now been some years since I last watched it. Still, I can't get rid of the impressions of emptiness, absurdity and impossibility to understand (the world, and the human mind) that this movie left into me. It can be violent to your mind, without showing a single violent image (by the way, I often see this movie as a counterpart to Clockwork Orange, even more than to 2001). It can stun you, with ten or twenty minutes of incomprehensible silence. It can deprive you of any certainty in the laws of nature - such as, people only die once - and thus leave you vulnerable and naked.

I know that many friends to whom I've shown this move did not understand it. So I'm not saying you'll like it. But this is possibly the best (non-action) sci-fi movie ever made.

Watch it at night, alone, when everything out of your home is dark, silent, and cold.

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