Solyaris

Andrei Tarkovsky

Solyaris [videorecording]= Solaris Andrei Tarkovsky. - Czechoslovakia Mosfilm Chetvyortoe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie 1972 - 2 videodiscs (ca. 166 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. - The Criterion Collection Vol. 164 .

Special features include:
- Audio commentary by Andrei Tarkovsky, scholars Vida Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie
- Nine deleted and alternate scenes
- Video interview with actress Natalya Bondarchuk, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, art director Mikhail Romadin, and composer Eduard Artemyev
- Excerpt from a documentary about Stanislaw Lem, the author of the film's source novel

From case cover:
Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.

From IMDb:
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.


DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Region 1; 2.35:1 as 16:9 widescreen.


Russian dialogue with English subtitles.

PN1997 / .S659 1972