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  • Title: Solaris (1972) (Criterion #164) [Solyaris]
  • Summary: A space mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence.
  • Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Cast: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Nikolai Grinko, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Olga Barnet, Vitalik Kerdimun, Olga Kizilova, Tatyana Malykh, Aleksandr Misharin, Bagrat Oganesyan, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Sos Sargsyan, Yulian Semyonov, V. Statsinsky, Valentina Sumenova, Georgi Tejkh
  • Year: 1972
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  • Format: DVD
  • Relation: Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Contact, Close Encountersof the Third Kind, The Day the Earth Stood Still, E.T., Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Moon, Sunshine, Sphere, Event Horizon, Interstellar
  • Language: Russian with English subtitles
  • Country: USSR Russia
  • Comments: The DVD includes an audio commentary by scholars Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie, nine deleted or alternate scenes, interviews with actress Natalya Bondarchuk, the cinematographer, art director and music composer, a five minute documentary excerpt featuring the Solaris novelist Stanislaw Lem, essays by Akira Kurosawa and Phillip Lopate.
  • Collection: Sci-Fi