Solaris

Fresh off the uncomfortable release of Andrei Rublev (actually, in the middle of it since it didn’t actually get an official Soviet release until 1973), Andrei Tarkovsky went safe. He chose to adapt the work of a popular Polish Soviet science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem, and hoped that it would help his career. Despite working closely with Lem, Tarkovsky ended up making a work that Lem hated, saying that the adaptation missed the point and that his novel wasn’t about the erotic problems of...