Solaris

Solaris (Solyaris), 1972

Soviet Union, 35mm, Black & White, 167’, Russian

Director: Andrey Tarkovski

Cast: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis

Strange transmissions are coming from the Solaris space station. Cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched there to investigate. But he himself will be afflicted by the supernatural phenomena on this mysterious, ocean-like planet which, with the return of his long dead wife, will send him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness.Russian filmmaker Tarkovsky has created a masterpiece by breakingthe science-fiction mold in Stanislaw Lem’s novel and instilling his own ideas and feelings about the concepts of humanity versus nature and truth. A profound suspense movie aboutthe pangs of conscience, Solaris won both the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes.