Solaris (1972)
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Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Run Time: 167 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1972 Language: Russian with English Subtitles
Starring: Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Natalya Bondarchuk, Nikolay Grinko, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
Screenwriters: Fridrikh Gorenshteyn, Andrei Tarkovsky from the novel by Stanislaw Lem
Producer: Viacheslav Tarasov
Co-Presented by Community Programming Partner Synth History. Plus a special sneak peek of Danz CM’s Over the Ocean.
Science Fiction meets Existentialism in Andrei Tarkovsky’s meditative masterpiece of the specters of regret that haunt us all. 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. A haunting parable of finding human truth in the far reaches of the galaxy is a mesmerizing journey to outer space AND inner torments.
About the Score
The score for Solaris was composed by synth pioneer Eduard Artemyev, who also wrote the film scores for Tarkovsky’s Mirror and Stalker. Artemyev began making electronic music in the 1960s, when the genre itself was still in its infancy. He wrote his first composition in 1967, on one of the first synthesizers, the ANS synthesizer, a ‘photoelectronic’ musical instrument that utilized a method of graphical sound recording used in cinematography, making it possible to synthesize a sound from an artificially drawn sound spectrogram.
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