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   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.   
      
   Cast Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, Juri Jarvet, Anatoli Solonitsyn,   
   Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Nikolai Grinko, Sos Sarkisyan   
   Director Andrei Tarkovsky   
      
      
   Watched Solaris for the third time on TCM tonight.   I first saw it decades   
   ago in a horrid pan-and-scan tv movie and was took as just one more bad sf   
   movie.  But having watched the full length cut twice now I  find it very, um   
   ,odd on several levels.     
   First there's the atitude of the scientists, instead of amazment at finding   
   such a different kind of life they just seem annoyed that it's getting in the   
   way of there unspecified research.  Even more so is the existence of the movie   
   its self, it just    
   seems so contrary to communist realism.  All it going on about unsolvable   
   mysteries doesn't fit.   
      
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