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DVD director Tarkovsky, Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis,
DVD Features:
DISC ONE: New digital transfer, enhanced for widescreen televisions
Audio essay by Tarkovsky scholars Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie, co-authors of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue
New and improved English subtitle translation
Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
DISC TWO: Nine deleted and alternate scenes
Video interviews with lead actress Natalya Bondarchuk, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, art director Mikhail Romadin, and composer Eduard Artemyev
Documentary excerpt with Solaris author Stanislaw Lem
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Widescreen anamorphic format
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Number of discs: 2
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Amazon.com Solaris review
The Russian answer to 2001, and very nearly as memorable a movie. The legendary Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky made this extremely deliberate science-fiction epic, an adaptation of a novel by Stanislaw Lem. The story follows a cosmonaut (Donatas Banionis) on an eerie trip to a planet where haunting memories can take physical form. Its bare outline makes it sound like a routine space-flight picture, an elongated Twilight Zone episode; but the further into its mysteries we travel, the less familiar anything seems. Even though Tarkovsky's meanings and methods are sometimes mystifying, Solaris has a way of crawling inside your head, especially given the slow pace and general lack of forward momentum.
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