Solaris (1968)

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Movie
German title Solaris
Original title Солярис
Country of production Soviet Union
original language Russian
Publishing year 1968
length 143 minutes
Rod
Director Boris Nirenburg ,
Lidija Ischimbajewa
script Nikolai Kemarsky
production Central television of the USSR
music A. Kliot
camera Yuri Bugna,
Boris Kiparissow,
Valeri Rewitsch
cut W. Minenok
occupation

Solaris (OT: Russian Солярис Soljaris ) is a two-part television film in black and white , the on Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris is based from the year 1961st Nikolai Kemarski wrote the screenplay and Boris Nirenburg was the director. The film was produced by the Central Television of the USSR ( Russian Центральное телевидение СССР , transcribed: Zentralnoje telewidenije SSSR). The film was released on DVD in Russia on January 29, 2009.

action

Part 1

The film begins with the launch of the Prometheus rocket , which brings the scientist Kris Kelvin to the station in orbit of the planet Solaris . When he gets there, he finds that no one will receive him. So he goes to the control room and is told by the computer that it was not a person but a computer that carried out the docking maneuver. Now he is still looking for the scientists. Eventually he meets Doctor Snaut, who initially takes him for one of the "visitors" until Kelvin tells him that he comes from Earth. When Kelvin asks Snaut about the whereabouts of his old friend Gibarian, Snaut tells of Gibarian's suicide, which he committed because of a "visitor". According to Snaut, a "visitor" is a human figure created by the surface of the planet that was bombarded with X-rays in an experiment. Therefore there is no way to evade this "person" near the planet. Snaut predicts Kelvin that he too will have such a “visitor”. Next, Kelvin visits Sartorius, who is arguing with his "visitor" in the laboratory and therefore has no time to speak to Kelvin. When he goes into his cabin, his wife Hari appears there, who committed suicide a few years ago. However, she can only remember the things she did with Kelvin. Kelvin therefore realizes that it is a "visitor" and decides to get rid of them. Under a pretext, he lures them into a space capsule and hastily shoots them into space, incurring slight burns due to the doors not being closed. When he returns to the cabin, he meets Snaut, who has already discovered Hari's dress that she was wearing before she put on the spacesuit. He predicts that she will come again. Then the three scientists meet to talk about their problem, the “visitors”, and how to solve it. They decide to first examine the structure of the visitors in more detail before considering how best to get rid of them. After the meeting is over, Kelvin returns to his cabin and there is another image of his wife.

Part 2

When "Hari" notices his burns, she is very caring. So Kris changes his attitude towards her. He no longer sees her as a burden, but sees it as a miracle that she has returned. The relationship seems to be back to the way it was before Hari's suicide.

During a video call the next morning, Snaut explains that Sartorius would like to hold a video conference to discuss the problem with these “visitors”. Kelvin agrees. Shortly afterwards they end the circuit because Snaut has to take care of his “visitor” first. Before the conference, he researched “Hari's” blood and discovered that the cells were not made up of atoms but of neutrinos . At the subsequent video conference, Sartorius suggested that the “visitors” be referred to as “Ph” (= phantoms) in order to save time. Then Kelvin reports to his colleagues about his discovery. When asked how such a structure should be stabilized, he replies that this is probably done by a force field of the planet. So there is a possibility of destroying the visitors. However, the conference ends prematurely because Sartorius is being harassed by his “visitor”.

Due to a nightmare of Kelvin, in which he insults "Hari", she comes across the farewell letter from the real Hari. The "visitor" Hari begins to believe that something is wrong with her, although Kelvin denies it. The next morning Snaut visits Kelvin in his cabin and is first introduced to "Hari" by Kelvin. When they have moved a little away from "Hari", Snaut tells Kelvin that he shot his "visitor", who, according to Snaut, was also a woman, into orbit. He then reports on Sartorius' plan to send the thoughts of a crew member to the surface and of his idea of ​​setting up an anti-neutrino field in the station and thus removing the visitors. Kelvin is therefore in a quandary: on the one hand he wants to stick to his friends, on the other hand he doesn't want to lose "Hari". At the end of the conversation, Snaut leaves the cabin without greeting "Hari", which she notices with growing suspicion and immediately talks about it with Kelvin. Shortly afterwards, Snaut and Sartorius in the laboratory consider how they can end what they consider to be a problematic relationship between Kelvin and “Hari”. Snaut's idea is to tell "Hari" the whole truth in Kelvin's absence, since he believes that a conversation with Kelvin would fail as much as it would with Gibarian. Meanwhile, “Hari” is sorting various video cassettes in Kelvin's cabin. She noticed a cassette containing the last message from Kelvin's friend Gibarian and his insights into Solaris. Without Kelvin knowing anything about the cassette, she puts it aside. Then she tries to ask Kelvin about Gibarian, but Kelvin blocks. Nor does he honestly answer her question as to why she can remember so little.

When Kelvin is asleep, "Hari" secretly takes the cassette and Kelvin's players and listens to the recording outside the booth in which she learns that the real Hari is dead. In desperation, she shoots herself with Kelvin's pistol. Kelvin wakes up from the shot and finds her apparently lifeless on the floor. But she comes back to life and confronts Kelvin. He is now forced to tell her that he is responsible for Hari taking his own life and that she is not this Hari.

A day later he visits the laboratory and reports to Snaut that "Hari" now knows everything and that they want to leave the station. Snaut's explanation that "Hari" would probably simply disappear at a certain distance, provided that the field that stabilizes the structure of the "visitors" is in the ocean, does not dissuade him. A little later he visits the laboratory with Hari. There Sartorius and Snaut carry out an experiment with Kelvin in which his thoughts are recorded. These records will later be sent to the planet to get it to end the presence of the "visitors". During this recording, Kelvin asked the planet to free Snaut and Sartorius from their “visitors”, but to keep “Hari” alive. While Kelvin concentrates on the experiment, Snaut talks to "Hari" in order to persuade her to have a private conversation, which she finally agrees to do. Then Kelvin and "Hari" make plans in their cabin for what they could do on earth. During the night "Hari" secretly leaves the cabin and visits Snaut in his laboratory. He explains to her that the plan is doomed to failure because as a creature of the planet Solaris she cannot leave its surroundings, otherwise she would vanish into thin air. In order to help Kelvin, she finally agrees to carry out her disappearance as quickly as possible with Snaut's help. Before that, however, she visits Kelvin one last time, who wakes up. To avoid disrupting the experiment, she gave him sleeping pills. Before she finally leaves the cabin, she writes another letter on Hari's letter, which should comfort Kelvin a little after the successful experiment. After successfully completing the experiment, Kelvin wakes up and, in despair over "Hari's" disappearance, passes out. When he comes to, Snaut and Sartorius explain to him what happened, hand him “Hari's” letter and ask him if he would like to stay, which he affirms after a long thought.

Differences to the novel

In contrast to the novel, the prehistory of the exploration of the planet is not told in the film, which means that there is no mention of flights to the planet and its strange surface. The processes on the surface of the planet are also not explicitly mentioned. Instead, strange noises keep playing. Another special feature is that the entire action, except for the flight to the space station, takes place within the station. Kelvin's reaction to the appearance of his wife is also different from that in the book. While he thinks he's crazy there, he reacts calmly in the film and immediately tries to get rid of them, since he already knows that these "visitors" will appear on the station. Another difference is the manner in which "Hari" attempted suicide. In the novel, she tries to kill herself with liquid oxygen; in the film she tries to come back to "life" with a pistol at a later point in time, with the same result as in the novel. In addition, the viewer does not find out anything specific about the "visitor" from Sartorius.

Further films

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kinopoisk.ru Солярис (Russian)