
Something went wrong
Try again later.
Solaris
Psychologist Kim Kelvin is sent to a space station orbiting the moon of a distant planet to investigate a mysterious death. There, he discovers that the nearby planet of Solaris is having dangerous effects on the crew members, somehow transforming their memories and obsessions into living beings.


















22 May 1920, Kherson, Ukrainian SSR [now Ukraine]

13 August 1929, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, TSFSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan]


3 September 1951

6 April 1939


28 April 1924, Kaunas, Lithuania


13 June 1906, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]


8 October 1931, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

24 October 1929, Stepanavan, Armenian SSR, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR [now Armenia]

30 August 1934, Bogorodsk, Bogorodskiy rayon, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia]

18 June 1919, Tallinn, Estonia

10 May 1950, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

26 April 1939, Omsk, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]


May 06, 2017
Andrei Tarkovsky's pacing is less moved by narrative detail than thematic and metaphorical suggestion.
August 09, 2016
Tarkovsky's reach for the stars was wholly in keeping with his striving curiosity and allowed him space to explore the nature of identity and love.
May 30, 2007
More an exploration of inner than of outer space, Tarkovsky's eerie mystic parable is given substance by the filmmaker's boldly original grasp of film language and the remarkable performances by all the principals.
June 16, 2015
[VIDEO ESSAY] Andrei Tarkovsky's prodigious ability to conceptualize grand-scale narrative structure with a fluid sense of cinematic time continues to influence filmmakers even if few rise to such dizzying heights.
May 12, 2017
Easily one of the most important science fiction films of all time.
July 15, 2015
Viewers with patience will find 'Solaris' mesmerizing, visual and emotional food for thought even if such thought is open to a rainbow of interpretations, or to none.
June 16, 2014
Tarkovsky's speculative visions enfold the mysteries of death and rebirth, the lost paradise of childhood, the power of art to define identity, the menace of science as destructive vanity ...
April 03, 2017
Where 2001: A Space Odyssey's final act explored the limitless possibilities of human potential, the heart of Solaris' thesis is the crushing limitation of human psychological experience.
February 09, 2006
It's a smart response to the superficial excesses of the sci-fi genre.
May 23, 2011
The effects are scanty, the drama gloomy, the philosophy of the film thick as a cloud of ozone. The plot is not all that original either.
May 18, 2017
The film has a hypnotic pull, drawing the viewer deeper and deeper into its enigmatic adventure by crafting a world all its own.
May 30, 2007
Andrei Tarkovsky spins a strange, slow but absorbing parable on life and love in the guise of a sci-fi theme.