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Solaris

Solaris

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 20, 1972

Runtime

2h 47m

Genres

Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery

User Score

78%

Original Title

Солярис

Production Companies

Unit Four, Creative Unit of Writers & Cinema Workers, Mosfilm

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Description

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.