Solaris
Psychologist Kim Kelvin is sent to a space station orbiting the moon of a distant planet to investigate a mysterious death. There, he discovers that the nearby planet of Solaris is having dangerous effects on the crew members, somehow transforming their memories and obsessions into living beings.
28 April 1924, Kaunas, Lithuania
30 August 1934, Bogorodsk, Bogorodskiy rayon, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia]
February 6, 1928 in Kremenchug, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine]
3 September 1951
13 June 1906, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
10 May 1950, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
18 June 1919, Tallinn, Estonia
13 August 1929, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, TSFSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]
24 October 1929, Stepanavan, Armenian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR [now Armenia]
22 May 1920, Kherson, Ukrainian SSR [now Ukraine]
6 April 1939
8 October 1931, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
26 April 1939, Omsk, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
April 03, 2017
Where 2001: A Space Odyssey's final act explored the limitless possibilities of human potential, the heart of Solaris' thesis is the crushing limitation of human psychological experience.June 16, 2014
Tarkovsky's speculative visions enfold the mysteries of death and rebirth, the lost paradise of childhood, the power of art to define identity, the menace of science as destructive vanity ...February 09, 2006
It's a smart response to the superficial excesses of the sci-fi genre.August 09, 2016
Tarkovsky's reach for the stars was wholly in keeping with his striving curiosity and allowed him space to explore the nature of identity and love.May 12, 2017
Easily one of the most important science fiction films of all time.May 18, 2017
The film has a hypnotic pull, drawing the viewer deeper and deeper into its enigmatic adventure by crafting a world all its own.May 23, 2011
The effects are scanty, the drama gloomy, the philosophy of the film thick as a cloud of ozone. The plot is not all that original either.May 06, 2017
Andrei Tarkovsky's pacing is less moved by narrative detail than thematic and metaphorical suggestion.June 16, 2015
[VIDEO ESSAY] Andrei Tarkovsky's prodigious ability to conceptualize grand-scale narrative structure with a fluid sense of cinematic time continues to influence filmmakers even if few rise to such dizzying heights.May 30, 2007
More an exploration of inner than of outer space, Tarkovsky's eerie mystic parable is given substance by the filmmaker's boldly original grasp of film language and the remarkable performances by all the principals.July 15, 2015
Viewers with patience will find 'Solaris' mesmerizing, visual and emotional food for thought even if such thought is open to a rainbow of interpretations, or to none.May 30, 2007
Andrei Tarkovsky spins a strange, slow but absorbing parable on life and love in the guise of a sci-fi theme.