Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 167 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
- loss of sense of reality
- based on novel or book
- extraterrestrial technology
- 1970s
- subconsciousness
- soviet union
- hallucination
- space travel
- astronaut
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Natalya Bondarchuk
Hari
Donatas Banionis
Kris Kelvin
Jüri Järvet
Dr. Snaut
Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
Henri Berton
- Mykola Hrynko — Kelvin's Father
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn — Dr. Sartorius
- Olga Barnet — Kelvin's Mother
- Vitalik Kerdimun — Henri Berton's Son
- Olga Kizilova — Guest of Dr. Gibarian
- Tatyana Malykh — Kris Kelvin's Niece
- Aleksandr Misharin — Shanahan, Chairman of the Anri Berton Commission
- Bagrat Oganesyan — Professor Tarkhe
- Tamara Ogorodnikova — Anna
- Sos Sargsyan — Dr. Gibarian
- Yulian Semyonov — Chairman of the Scientific Conference
- Directed
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Written
- Andrei Tarkovsky, Fridrikh Gorenshteyn
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 1,892 ratings
- Studio
- Unit Four, Creative Unit of Writers & Cinema Workers, Mosfilm
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
