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Solaris (1972)

Solaris (1972)

Science Fiction Drama Mystery

The planet where nightmares come true…

Release Date: 1972, March 20
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Unit Four, Creative Unit of Writers & Cinema Workers, Mosfilm
Cast: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Mykola Hrynko, Olga Kizilova, Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Olga Barnet, Vitalik Kerdimun, Tatyana Malykh, Sos Sargsyan, Vitaliy Statsinskiy

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book space travel hallucination astronaut 1970s extraterrestrial technology loss of sense of reality soviet union subconsciousness