It centers on a widowed psychologist Kris Kelvin, who is sent to a space station orbiting a water planet called Solaris to investigate the mysterious death of a doctor, as well as the mental problems plaguing the dwindling number of cosmonauts on the station. Finding the remaining crew behaving oddly and aloof, Kelvin is more than surprised when he meets his seven-years-dead wife Khari on the station. It quickly becomes apparent that Solaris possesses something that brings out repressed memories and obsessions within the cosmonauts, leaving Kelvin to question his perception of reality.
These concepts were pretty ground breaking in 1972, which lead to this film being compared to Stanley Kubrik's 2001. In actual fact there are very few touching points. Much as I admire Tarkovsky's work his lack of attention to detail in this film makes it very dated. In 2002 Steven Soderbergh remade the film and cast George Clooney in the lead to much greater effect.
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