Solaris [Criterion Voyager]

DVD/APPROX. 169 MINS./1972/US PG

Main feature:

Release Nov 26, 2002
Video Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs.
Audio Russian: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1972
Genre Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Special features:

  • Audio Commentary by Tarkovsky Scholars Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie co-authors of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue
  • Nine Deleted and Alternate Scenes
  • Video Interviews with Lead Actress Natalya Bondarchuk, Cinematographer Vadim Yusov, Art Director Mikhail Romadin and Composer Eduard Artemyev
  • Documentary Excerpt with Solaris Author Stanislaw Lem
  • Essay on Solaris by Akira Kurosawa and Philip Lopate

Synopsis:

  
Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into he darkest recesses of his own consciousness. In Solaris, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky creates a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our preconceived notions of love, truth and humanity itself.
  

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Natalya BondarchukVladislav DvorjetzkiAnna ThomsonJohn Ventimiglia"Solaris"
directed byAndrei Tarkovsky
Production Year: 1972

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