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Solaris
- 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 the
crew in a seemingly
life-or-death struggle to
understand this phenomena,
Tarkovsky crafts a mind-altering
earthbound space odyssey. Filled
with visions of humanity versus
itself, SOLARIS takes the
philosophical investigations of
Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A
SPACE ODYSSEY to extravagant
lengths and offers no answers
except this: The only frontier
humanity has yet to conquer is
that of its own existence.
- SOLARIS is based on the novel
by Stanislav Lem. Among their 35
demands for cuts on SOLARIS, the
Russian censors made comments
like "remove the concept of
God" and "remove the
scenes where Kris is walking
with his pants off."
Tarkovsky had wanted to make an
autobiographical film but every
script he submitted to the
Soviet officials was rejected,
so he finally settled with
Solaris, as the censors deemed
science fiction a safe genre
aimed towards the youth and
incapable of harboring
subversive elements. Tarkovsky
had wanted to cast Swedish
actress Bibi Andersson in the
role of Hari. Tarkovsky saw
Stanley Kubrick's 2001 and
disliked it, thinking it cold
and sterile and relying too much
on technology. He then set out
to make SOLARIS its opposite.
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