TY - ADVS AU - Andrei Tarkovsky AU - Andrei Tarkovsky AU - Fridrikh Gorenshteyn AU - Stanislaw Lem AU - Eduard Artemev AU - Vadim Yusov AU - Lyudmila Feyginova AU - Nina Marcus AU - Natalya Bondarchuk AU - Donatas Banionis AU - Jüri Järvet AU - Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy AU - Nikolay Grinko AU - Anatoliy Solonitsyn AU - Olga Barnet AU - Vitalik Kerdimun AU - Olga Kizilova AU - Tatyana Malykh TI - Solyaris AV - PN1997 .S659 1972 PY - 1972/// CY - Czechoslovakia PB - Mosfilm, Chetvyortoe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -