MSMM
presents
Solaris
Weds. Sept. 17th 7:15pm
The Academy of Music Theatre
Andrei Tarkovsky • 1972 • USSR
Runtime: 2 hrs 49 mins
Based on the science fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, Solaris has become the most popular of Tarkovsky’s works. Cosmonaut
Kris Kelvin is dispatched to a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris. The scientists must face the alien intelligence of the ocean-covered planet, which is able to materialize anyone from the past. Kelvin must face his dead wife, and again confront the division between them which drove her to a suicide.
“A towering movie... one of the most thoughtful science fiction epics ever and one of the few worthy successors to 2001, A Space Odyssey.”
– David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
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