Solaris

DVD 2011

Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.

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Human-alien encounters Fiction

Life on other planets Fiction

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Feature films Fiction Foreign films Motion pictures, Russian Science fiction films Video recordings for the hearing impaired

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Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 164 Criterion collection ; 164 DVD

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ISBN:

9780780026070

Description:

2 videodiscs (166 minutes) : sound, colour with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital monophonic
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris

Notes:

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1972
Based on the novel Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
Special features: Audio essay by Tarkovsky scholars Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie; 9 deleted and alternative scenes; video interviews with Natalya Bondarchuk, Vadim Yusov, Mikhail Romadin and Eduard Artemyev; documentary excerpt with Solaris author Stanislaw Lem; improved English subtitle translation. Also includes a booklet of essasys by Phillip Loapte and Akira Kurosawa
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky ; screenplay by Fridrikh Gorenstein and Andrei Tarkovsky ; cinematography, Vadim Yusov ; editor, L. Feiginova ; art direction, Mikhail Romadin ; music, Eduard Artemyev ; sound, Semyon Litvinov
Natalia Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Yuri Yarvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetski, Nikolai Grinko, Anatoli Solonitsyn
DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital monophonic
For private home use only
Russian dialogue with English subtitles
Cannes Film Festival, 1972: Grand Prize of the Jury (Andrei Tarkovsky); FIPRESCI Award (Andrei Tarkovsky)
Наталья Бондарчук, Донатас Банионис, Юри Ярвет, Владислав Дворжецкий, Николай Гринько, Анатолий Солоницын
Главный Оператор, Вадим Юсов ; Монтаж, Л. Фейгиновой ; Композитор, Эдуард Артемьев; Звукооператор, Семен Литвинов

Control Number:

3261816

UPC:

037429172124
715515083614

Other Authors:

Artemʹev, Ėduard, composer
Banionis, Donatas, 1924-2014, actor
Bondarchuk, Natalʹi͡a, 1950- actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Dvorzhetski, Vladislav, 1939-1978, actor
Feigova, L. (Liudmila), editor of moving image work
Gorenshteĭn, Fridrikh, 1932-2002, screenwriter
Grinʹko, Nikolaĭ, 1920-1989, actor
I͡Usov, Vadim, 1929-2013, director of photography
Janus Films, production company
Järvet, Jüri, 1919-1995, actor
Moskovskaia kinostudia "Mosfilʹm.", production company
Romadin, M., art director
Solonitsyn, Anatoli Alekseevich, 1934-1982, actor
Tarkovskiĭ, Andreĭ Arsenʹevich, 1932-1986, film director, screenwriter
motion picture adaptation of (work): Lem, Stanisław. Solaris. [DVD]Videorecording
Московская киностудия "Мосфильм."

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