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RUSSIA · 1972

Solaris

Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet Poetic Cinema memory and identity consciousness and humanity human connection and isolation exploration of the unknown grief and loss
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Synopsis

Tarkovsky sci-fi masterpiece about memory and consciousness. Christopher Nolan studied it before making Interstellar.

Year1972
CountryRussia
DirectorAndrei Tarkovsky
MovementSoviet Poetic Cinema
Cinematic Threads
I remember seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey when I was a kid and I was deeply influenced by it, and then seeing Tarkovsky’s Solaris. These are masterpieces of sci-fi cinema. These are the cornerstones.
Films it influenced
Gravity 2013 · Alfonso Cuarón Interstellar 2014 · Christopher Nolan
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