Mikhail Romadin on SOLARIS
Solaris • 16m
Although SOLARIS was occasionally marketed as the Soviet 2001, director Andrei Tarkovsky actually thought of his film as 2001’s polar opposite—it emphasized humanity and morality over special effects and science fiction. For the creation of SOLARIS’s distinctive look, Tarkovsky turned to art director Mikhail Romadin, interviewed here in 2011.
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Eduard Artemyev on SOLARIS
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Stanislaw Lem on SOLARIS
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SOLARIS Deleted Scenes
Director Andrei Tarkovsky cut SOLARIS significantly before the film went to Cannes in 1972. Long thought to be lost, the original version was, in fact, in the Russian film archive Gosfilmofond. Presented here is a sequence from the original version that differs from Tarkovsky’s final cut.
