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Solaris (Russian: Солярис, Solyaris) is a 1972 Soviet film based on the novel Solaris by Polish author Stanisław Lem. It was directed by acclaimed Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is a slow, meditative psychodrama set mostly on a space station. Another film adaptation of the book was released in 2002, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 384 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (403 × 629 pixel, file size: 124 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Solaris film by Andrei Tarkovsky soviet poster. ...
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Stanisław Lem ( , September 12, 1921 – March 27, 2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. ...
Bondarchuk and Banionis in their Solaris roles Natalya/Natalia Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (Russian: ; born 10 May 1950 in Moscow) is a Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovskys Solaris as Hari. She is the daughter of the Ukrainian actor Sergei Bondarchuk. ...
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Cover by Oscar Chichoni for the Spanish edition Solaris is a Polish science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), published in Warsaw in 1961 and probably his most famous work. ...
Stanisław Lem ( , September 12, 1921 – March 27, 2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. ...
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Psychodrama is a method of psychotherapy which explores, through action, the problems of people. ...
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Solaris is a 2002 film directed by Steven Soderbergh, and stars George Clooney. ...
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Plot
The movie opens with psychologist Kris Kelvin walking in the land around his father's house, the day before he is to leave for the space station orbiting the remote, liquid-covered, planet-like object called Solaris. After decades of study, the scientific mission there has made little progress in understanding its subject, and has fallen into crisis. Kelvin is being sent to evaluate the situation and determine the future of the outpost.
A former pilot named Burton is visiting. Together they watch footage of hearings many years before, in which Burton recounted seeing a bizarrely huge child on the surface of Solaris during a search for two missing scientists. His craft's cameras having only recorded clouds and the serene surface, his claims were dismissed as hallucination. After unsuccessfully trying to convince Kelvin of the truth of his experience Burton leaves angrily, only to call from his car to say that later he met the child of one of the scientists and that excepting its size, it was the same one he'd seen. In an extended sequence, Burton drives with his son through the streets of a busy, foreign city.
Kelvin burns most of his old papers in a bonfire before leaving, remarking on how much he'd kept.
Arriving at Solaris after his journey, Kelvin is not met by any of the three remaining scientists, and finds the space station in dangerous neglect and disarray. He searches them out, finding that his friend Dr. Gibarian has died mysteriously and the remaining two offer only unhelpful and confusing information. Shortly after being advised by Dr. Snaut not to overreact if he sees anything unusual, he begins to catch glimpses of other people on the station. He begins his investigation against the backdrop of the slowly boiling, mercurial surface of Solaris.
Waking from an exhausted sleep, Kelvin finds a woman in his quarters with him despite his barricaded door. It is his wife, Hari. She seems as puzzled by her appearance as he. Realizing she is an apparition of some sort, he lures her into his spacecraft and launches her into space, being caught by the rocket's blast in his haste. Dr. Snaut tends his burns, opening up more now that Kelvin is sharing their experiences. The scientists promote a plan of beaming Kelvin's brainwave patterns at Solaris, in hopes that it will understand them and stop trying to communicate with its disturbing apparitions, and Dr. Sartorius is dissuaded from his more radical plan to attack it by bombarding it with heavy radiation.
That evening Hari reappears in his room. He is calmer, holding her through the night. When he wakes he attempts to hide the duplicate clothes left by her predecessor, but when he leaves the room she panics, beating her way through the metal door and badly cutting herself. He carries her to his bed, where her injuries heal in front of his eyes. In discussion with the scientists, they both begin to understand that Solaris has created her from his memories of her. She is not human, but has thoughts and feelings; Kelvin introduces her to the others as his wife, and insists that they treat her with respect. Dr. Sartorius explains that the "visitors" began appearing after the scientists attracted Solaris's attention with their first surveys, they are made of neutrinos, and it may be possible to destroy them.
Kelvin shows Hari films of himself and his parents when he was a boy, and, later, herself. As time passes she becomes more independent, able to be out of sight of him. From Snaut she learns that the original Hari had committed suicide ten years earlier, and Kelvin tells her the whole story. She kills herself again outside of his quarters by drinking liquid oxygen, only to painfully, spasmodically return to life a few minutes later. The surface of Solaris has become agitated. Kelvin falls into a fevered sleep, dreaming of his mother and many Haris walking around his room. When he recovers she is gone, and Snaut reads him a note she left, in which she explains that she herself asked the scientists to destroy her.
Snaut informs Kelvin that that since they broadcast Kelvin's brainwaves at Solaris, islands have begun forming on its surface. Kelvin debates whether to return to Earth or to stay on Solaris in the hope of reconnecting with that which was loved and has been lost. He is then seen back on the shore of the frozen pond beside his father's house. His dog runs toward him and he walks happily toward it, but his face falls when he sees that something is wrong: water is falling inside the house and though his father is inside he seems unaware of it. They embrace on the front step. The camera draws back; the house, lake and surrounding land is revealed to be on an island, floating on the surface of Solaris.
Adaptation Although Tarkovsky's film is fairly faithful to the book, its author, Stanisław Lem, has said "I never really liked Tarkovsky's version". [1]. In the book, Lem describes the inability of human science to properly handle a truly alien life form that is beyond human understanding, while Tarkovsky focuses on Kelvin's feelings towards his wife and the human condition in space exploration (Tarkovsky turns Gibarian's monologue from chapter six of the book into a highlight of the final library scene, in a line which Snaut delivers: "We don't need other worlds. We need mirrors"). StanisÅ‚aw Lem ( , September 12, 1921 – March 27, 2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. ...
Unlike the novel, which begins with Kelvin's spaceflight, Tarkovsky illustrates Kelvin's visit to his parents' house in the countryside prior to his departure, thus creating a contrast with the cold, sterile and alienating atmosphere of the Solaris station and questioning the concept of space exploration and its impact on the human psyche in general.
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Production Most of the film was shot in the Soviet Union (in the countryside and at a large studio at Mosfilm), but the scenes of Burton driving through the city were shot in Tokyo by cinematographer Vadim Yusov. Mosfilm logo was the Statue of the Worker and Kolkhoznitsa at VDNKh Mosfilm film studio (in Cyrillic, МоÑфиÌльм) is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. ...
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Solaris features Bach's chorale prelude for organ, "Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" ("I call to you, Lord Jesus Christ"), BWV 639, which is heard four times throughout the film. The interior of the spaceship contains full-size reproductions of Brueghel's Months paintings, and details of
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The film features Russian actor Anatoli Solonitsyn, who was discovered by Tarkovsky, in a supporting role. Anatoly Solonitsyn (first name also transliterated Anatoli occasionally) was a famous Soviet actor. ...
Responses Solaris is well known in Russia and other former Soviet nations, and it has also achieved cult film status in the West. The film made a star of 18-year old Natalya Bondarchuk, who played Kelvin's wife (and "resurrected" wife). A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. ...
Bondarchuk and Banionis in their Solaris roles Natalya/Natalia Sergeyevna Bondarchuk (Russian: ; born 10 May 1950 in Moscow) is a Russian actress and film director, best known for her appearance in Andrei Tarkovskys Solaris as Hari. She is the daughter of the Ukrainian actor Sergei Bondarchuk. ...
A frequently criticized aspect of the film is the opening act, which is calm and slow-paced, with little of the drama of the rest of the film. In addition, some viewers feel that the lengthy car traffic sequence is too long for such an early part of the film, as it alienates some viewers. When asked about this by the Soviet censor overseeing the production, Tarkovsky said he made the opening sequence boring on purpose.[citation needed]
In his autobiographical documentary Voyage in Time (written a decade after Solaris), Tarkovsky says that he viewed Solaris as unsuccessful. He says that his goal was to make films "without genre", and that Solaris, even with its minimal technical dialogue and special effects, was unable to escape the genre of science fiction, unlike his later film Stalker, which he felt to have succeeded in circumventing the standard constraints of the genre. Voyage in Time (Italian: ) is a 62-minute long feature documentary that documents the travels in Italy of director Andrei Tarkovsky in preparation for the making of his film Nostalghia. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Stalker (Russian: Сталкер) is a 1979 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. ...
Solaris and 2001 Solaris is often described as a Russian answer to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tarkovsky saw 2001 just before filming started, and he disliked the film intensely, calling it "cold and sterile" [2][3]. Although some film guides, such as Time Out,[citation needed] have claimed Solaris to be a socialist answer to 2001, Tarkovsky did not involve himself with politics, and preferred to film his concerns about the lack of spirituality in modern society.[citation needed] Kubrick redirects here. ...
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Socialism is a broad array of ideologies and political movements with the goal of a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community for the purposes of increasing social and economic equality and cooperation. ...
Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit. ...
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