Solaris (Russian: Solyaris) is a 1972 science fiction art film adaptation of the novel Solaris (1961), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. Read more
Solaris is a 1961 Polish science fiction novel by Stanisaw Lem. It is about the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and non-human species. In probing and examining the oceanic surface of the planet Solaris from a hovering research station the human scientists are, in turn, being studied by the sentient planet itself, which probes for and examines the thoughts of the human beings who are analysing it. Solaris has the ability to manifest their secret, guilty concerns in human form, for each scientist to personally confront. Read more