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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Stars: |
Donatas Banionis |
| Actors: |
Yuri Jarvet |
| Genre: |
Foreign Films |
| Subgenre: |
Futuristic · Cult Film · Space Exploration · Essential Cinema · Classic · Russian · Science-Fiction |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
720917010281 |
| Release Date: |
1972 |
| Running Time: |
2hr 47min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
Russian |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Criterion Collection; 2-Disc Set; Widescreen, 2hr 49min
Release Company: Criterion Collection (November 26, 2002)
UPC: 037429172124 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 2hr 47min |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
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Professional Reviews
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(01/01/2003, p.57, Wade Major): "...A conscious, calculated effort by one of the cinema's deepest thinkers to tackle a wide variety of philosophical concerns....A uniquely dazzling display of its maker's cinematic virtuosity..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"Knowledge is only valid when it is based on morality"--Berton (Vladislav Dvorzhetsky to Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) |
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SOLARIS, director Andrei Tarkovsky's science fiction cult classic, presents an uncompromisingly unique and poetic meditation on space travel and its physical and existential ramifications. When a long-standing Russian space station hovering above the planet Solaris begins to report strange phenomena, Kris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis), an eager and intrepid cosmonaut, departs for the station in order to investigate. Warned by former Solaris specialists that the planet presents incomprehensible obstacles, Kelvin is nevertheless secure in his mission. However, the minute he steps foot onto the haunted and desolate space station, everything changes. Kelvin learns that of the three members left on board, one has killed himself and the remaining two have seemingly become schizophrenic recluses. When Kelvin's dead ex-wife appears out of the shadows, the reports that Solaris is a thinking being capable of reading human minds and materializing their desires and memories are proven true. As Kelvin joins the rest of t... |
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