Director: Andre Tarkovsky Writers: Andrei Tarkovsky and Fridrikh Gorenshtein (screenplay), Stanislav Lem (novel) Cinematographer: Vadim Yusov Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Yuri Yarvet Studio/Running Time: Criterion, 166 min. When Solaris was released in the United States at the end of 1976 critics frequently compared it with our own, somewhat more famous science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The reasoning for this is obvious: both are long, slow pictures by difficult auteurs that forsake a conventional narrative. But more than that there was also a sort of implicit competition critics brought to the movie’s interpretation as part...
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