Solaris (1972)

Name: Solaris
Released: 1972
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Nikolay Grinko

• Movies, Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

• 167 min

7.8

The planet where nightmares come true…

Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
Casting: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Nikolay Grinko, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Olga Barnet, Vitalik Kerdimun, Olga Kizilova, Tatyana Malykh, Aleksandr Misharin, Bagrat Oganesyan, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Sos Sargsyan, Yulian Semyonov, Vitaliy Statsinskiy, Vera Sumenova, Georgiy Teykh
Countries: Soviet Union
Premiere: 1972-03-20
Status: Released

Tags: loss of sense of reality, based on novel or book, extraterrestrial technology, 1970s, subconsciousness, soviet union, hallucination, space travel, astronaut

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.