Solaris (DVD, 2002, 2-Disc Set, Criterion Collection Widescreen)

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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.

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eBay Product ID (ePID)3413317

Product Key Features

ActorDonatas Banionis
RatingNR
EditionCriterion Collection; 2-Disc Set; Widescreen
Movie/TV TitleSolaris
DirectorAndrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Tarkovski
FormatDVD
Release Year2002
GenreForeign Language
Sub-GenreRussian

Additional Product Features

Region CodeRegion 1
Number of Discs2
Country/Region of ManufactureSoviet Union
Display FormatCriterion Collection; 2-Disc Set; Widescreen
Leading RoleDonatas Banionis
Release Date20021126
Film CountrySoviet Union

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  • Disturbing and thought-provoking, also brilliant

    Solaris is probably meant to be Russia's answer to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey but with much more primitive effects. It's very hard to explain without spoilers. The movie is very long (169 minutes), and has a Part 1 and Part 2 (just like 2001). The ending is worth the wait, as it confirms that the entire film deals with the nature of human fears and desires. It is loosely related to events on a space station orbiting the planet Solaris, and its strange "living ocean". Some of the space station sets are good, others are laughable. Large upholstered chairs and heavy wooden furniture don't belong in space. Overall I'm glad I watched it.

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  • Tarkovsky version of 2001 Odyssey

    Classic character analysis sci-fi I just wish the subtitles were available in multingual or ability to turn them off.

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  • Didn't like it.

    Dated, way too long, does not hold up from when it was made.

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  • Russian space film

    Russian film with subtitles. Amazing photography. Complicated story. Great film. I need to watch it again.

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  • Item was great. Price was competitive. Everything was good

    Item was great. Price was competitive. Everything was good

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  • Great film

    Great 70's film!

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned

  • A masterpiece

    A masterpiece from a great director.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned