A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations
- Doktor Snaut, kibernetik
- (as Yuri Yarvet)
- Mat Krisa Kelvina
- (as O. Barnet)
- Syn Anri Bertona
- (as V. Kerdimun)
- Gostya doktora Gribaryana
- (as O. Kizilova)
- Plemyannitsa Krisa Kelvina
- (as T. Malykh)
- Shanakhan, predsedatel komissii Anri Bertona
- (as A. Misharin)
- Professor Tarkhe
- (as B. Oganesyan)
- Anna, tetka Krisa Kelvina
- (as T. Ogorodnikova)
- Doktor Gribaryan, fiziolog
- (as S. Sarkisyan)
- Predsedatel nauchnoy konferentsii
- (as Yu. Semyonov)
- Chlen uchenogo soveta
- (as V. Statsinskiy)
- Professor Messendzher
- (as G. Teykh)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThis was the most widely seen of Andrei Tarkovsky's films outside of the Soviet Union. However, Tarkovsky himself reportedly considered it the least favorite of the films he directed. Not being a fan of the science fiction genre (which he criticized for its "comic book trappings and vulgar commercialism"), he was nevertheless persuaded to propose this adaptation of the eponymous and popular sci-fi novel 'Solaris' to appease the Soviet censors. However, he considered the film an artistic failure because of its need for technological dialogue and special effects, which prevented it from transcending its genre; something he believed his movie Stalker (1979) did better.
- GoofsAt the moment when the station attains zero gravity, the candlestick passes floating in the air, with the flames burning the same as in earth. Actually, with zero gravity, the fire doesn't go upward, candle flames would rather be spherical and very weak (blue).
- Quotes
Dr. Snaut: Science? Nonsense! In this situation mediocrity and genius are equally useless! I must tell you that we really have no desire to conquer any cosmos. We want to extend the Earth up to its borders. We don't know what to do with other worlds. We don't need other worlds. We need a mirror. We struggle to make contact, but we'll never achieve it. We are in a ridiculous predicament of man pursuing a goal that he fears and that he really does not need. Man needs man!
- Alternate versionsThe Region-4 DVD was released by Shock as part of its Distinction Series and runs at 2 hours and 49 minutes, with some noticeable cut scenes throughout the films. This 2-disc set doesn't contain any deleted/alternate scenes.
- ConnectionsEdited into Catalogue of Ships (2008)
- SoundtracksThe Little Organ Book: Ich Ruf Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ - BWV 639
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (as I. S. Bakh)
As with most movies that have been saddled with the word "greatness," I understand why "Solaris" is considered to be such a watershed movie and so revered by so many, but I have to admit that I didn't personally feel myself responding to it all that much. Maybe I would on a second (or third or fourth) viewing, but I can't say I'm very compelled to watch it again. It's cerebral and philosophical, which I expected, and a bit cold and emotionally uninvolving despite the fact that it's about almost nothing but human emotions and how we react to life's biggest mysteries. I didn't warm much to the characters or ever really think of them as individual human beings so much as necessary conduits for communicating the film's philosophical ruminations. Despite being set in the vast reaches of space, it's a claustrophobic movie, which I think is intentional. We never see space, only the cramped interiors of a spaceship, and that feels right, since the movie is more about the vast universe contained within Man's head than it is about the great physical universe beyond our solar system's borders.
What I liked most about "Solaris" is that it suggests that Man isn't really developed enough to handle breakthroughs in our understanding of the larger universe. Given the chance to explore space and engage with elements beyond our comprehension, the characters in the movie instead spend all of their time ruminating over and regretting the people they left behind on Earth and the mistakes they made there. It's almost like Mankind turns to solving giant huge mysteries as a distraction from the fact that we're not capable of cracking the lesser, more mundane mysteries of everyday life, like love, commitment, and dependence on one another.
"Solaris" does have one chilling and memorable ending, I'll give it that. If we go poking around in what we don't understand, it seems to say, we may very well find ourselves unable to return to what we do.
Grade: A-
- evanston_dad
- Mar 4, 2020
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- Country of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Điều Tạo Nên Con Người
- Filming locations
- Akasaka, Minato, Japan(Berton's car scenes)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- RUR 1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $22,168
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,537
- Sep 15, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $229,210
- Runtime2 hours 47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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