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.
Product Identifiers
UPC
0037429172124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3413317
Product Key Features
Actor
Donatas Banionis
Rating
NR
Edition
Criterion Collection; 2-Disc Set; Widescreen
Movie/TV Title
Solaris
Director
Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Tarkovski
Format
DVD
Release Year
2002
Genre
Foreign Language
Sub-Genre
Russian
Additional Product Features
Region Code
Region 1
Number of Discs
2
Country/Region of Manufacture
Soviet Union
Display Format
Criterion Collection; 2-Disc Set; Widescreen
LeafCats
617
Leading Role
Donatas Banionis
Release Date
20021126
Film Country
Soviet Union
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