Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Release Date: 01/1972
Languages: Russian
Runtime: 169 minutes
Also Known as: Solyaris
Description: Scientist Kris Kelvin travels to the mysterious planet Solaris to investigate the failure of an earlier mission. But when his long-dead wife appears on the space station, he realizes the planet has the power to materialize human desires. Director Andrei Tarkovsky's sci-fi cult classic, based on Stanislaw Lem's novel, presents an uncompromisingly unique and poetic meditation on space travel and its physical and existential ramifications.
Agreed. One of my favorite Soviet era movies.
i agree, that Sorderbergh''s version is very powerful in its own way too.