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Solaris (Blu-ray, 2017)

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Psychological drama from Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, adapted from the Stanislaw Lem novel of the same name. The film charts the strange events which befall a group of young cosmonauts who work on a space station orbiting the ocean-covered planet Solaris. Fellow cosmonaut Chris Kelvin (Donatas Banionis) is sent to investigate the occurrences, and soon begins encountering a variety of supernatural phenomena, including the physical manifestation of his own painful memories of his late wife. Kelvin tries to get to the bottom of the mystery and begins looking for a way to communicate with the powerful forces of Solaris.

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A psychologist is sent to investigate the strange deaths on board a space station.

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EAN5050629727838

eBay Product ID (ePID)13048555505

Product Key Features

ActorVladislav Dvorzhetsky, Yuri Jarvet, Donatas Banionis, Sos Sarkissian, Natalya Bondarchuk, Anatoli Solonitsyn

Film/TV TitleSolaris

DirectorAndrei Tarkovsky

Release Year2017

FormatBlu-ray

LanguageRussian

FeaturesThe Criterion Collection\High-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\Audio essay by Andrei Tarkovsky scholars Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie, co-authors of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue\Nine deleted and alternate scenes\Video interviews with actress Natalya Bondarchuk, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, art director Mikhail Romadin, and composer Eduard Artemyev\Excerpt from a documentary about Stanislaw Lem, the author of the filmÆs source novel\PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Phillip Lopate and an appreciation by director Akira Kurosawa

GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General

Run Time166 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate12A/12

Country/Region of ManufactureRussia

Number of Discs1

ComposerEdward Artemyev

Additional InformationSOLARIS, 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.

ReviewsUncut - [D]eeply innovative....By Tarkovsky standards, accessible. By any standards, a brooding beauty, Box Office - ...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..., Entertainment Weekly - ...Stunningly beautiful....[An] hypnotic meditation on guilt, human intelligence, and the nature of man's soul..., Los Angeles Times - ...Beautiful and astonishing....SOLARIS is a dazzlingly imaginative work with awesome production values and special effects...

ScreenwriterAndrei Tarkovsky, Friedrich Gorenstein

MusicJohann Sebastian Bach

AuthorStanislaw Lem

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleSolaris

Director of PhotographyVadim Yusov

Consumer AdviceContains moderate injury detail, suicide references