Солярис
Solaris (1972)

Andrei Tarkovsky's adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's cult 1961 novel - about a cosmonaut psychologist (Donatas Banionis) who experiences strange visions when he visits a distant space station - is a haunting piece of cinema. It's also a moving meditation on humanity, love and the unknowable nature of the universe.

When contact is lost with a space station over the Solaris Ocean, authorities decide to send a cosmonaut psychologist Kris Kelvin (Banionis) to interview the three-man crew. When Kelvin arrives, he discovers the space station in near ruins, one of the crew dead and the others haunted by strange apparitions. Kelvin himself begins to experience hallucinations, meeting an exact copy of his dead wife (Natalya Bondarchuk) and soon nothing is as it seems…

“Tarkovsky took from Lem's novel and (created) his own spiritual and deeply Russian sensibility - to create a rare case of a sci-fi classic that endures even when the "futuristic" technology it features has long dated.” (BBC Radio 2006)

Science Fiction (Art-house)

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Yurii Jarvet, Vladislav Dzorzhetsky,Nikolai Grinko, Anatoli Solonitsyn

Award: FIPRESCI Prize (Cannes Film Festival, 1972)
Grand Prize of Jury, Andrei Tarkovsky (Cannes Film Festival, 1972)

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Session Times

SYDNEY
9.30pm Friday 29th September

MELBOURNE
5.40pm Sunday 8th October

CANBERRA
8.15pm Saturday 30th September

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