Solaris (1972)
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Run Time: 167 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1972 Language: Russian with English Subtitles
Starring: Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Natalya Bondarchuk, Nikolay Grinko, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
Screenwriters: Fridrikh Gorenshteyn, Andrei Tarkovsky from the novel by Stanislaw Lem
Producer: Viacheslav Tarasov
Co-Presented by Community Programming Partner Synth History. Plus a special sneak peek of Danz CM’s Over the Ocean.
Science Fiction meets Existentialism in Andrei Tarkovsky’s meditative masterpiece of the specters of regret that haunt us all. A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions. A haunting parable of finding human truth in the far reaches of the galaxy is a mesmerizing journey to outer space AND inner torments.
