Solaris (1968)

Original title

Солярис

Directed by

Boris Nirenburg, Lidiya Ishimbayeva

Genre

drama film, science fiction film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 23m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A psychologist travels to a space station orbiting the planet Solaris where the crew is experiencing strange phenomena. He confronts his own repressed memories and emotions as the planet's ocean seems to manifest his deepest thoughts into physical form.

melancholicslow-burnphilosophicalsomberuncannycerebralatmosphericbroodingintrospective

What happens

Solaris (Russian: Солярис, tr. Solyaris) is a two-part 1968 Soviet television play in black-and-white based on the 1961 novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem. It was the first film adaptation of the novel. It was first aired on Channel 1 of the Soviet Central Television on October 8–9, 1968, with repeat on October 10–11, 1968. On January 29, 2009 the film was released on DVD (in Russian). On 14 April 2019 the film was shown under the title Solyaris at the Barbican Centre in London (as part of the Stanislaw Lem on Film series within the Kinoteka festival of Polish film) with English subtitles commissioned for the screening that were composited over the film live by the translator. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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