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Stanislaw Lem on SOLARIS

Solaris • 5m 6s

One person who decidedly did not like Andrei Tarkovsky’s film SOLARIS was Stanislaw Lem, the author of the source novel. The film explores completely different themes from Lem’s philosophically oriented science fiction. This excerpt from a Polish television documentary addresses Lem’s attempts to come to a compromise with the intransigent director.

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    Director Andrei Tarkovsky cut SOLARIS significantly before the film went to Cannes in 1972. Long thought to be lost, the original version was, in fact, in the Russian film archive Gosfilmofond. Presented here is a sequence from the original version that differs from Tarkovsky’s final cut.

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