Information from pre-release promotional materials; release date: Nov. 26, 2002

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1972

Based on the novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem

Special features: Audio essay by Tarkovsky scholars Vida Johnson and Graham Petrie; 9 deleted and alternative scenes; video interviews with Natalya Bondarchuk, Vadim Yusov, Mikhail Romadin and Eduard Artemyev; documentary excerpt with Solaris author Stanislaw Lem; improved English subtitle translation

Kamera, Vadim Iusov ; montazh, L. Feiginova ; muzik, Eduard Artemʹev

Natalia Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Uri Arvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskii, Nikolai Grinʹko, Anatolii Solonitsyn

Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness

DVD; stereo / Dolby surround; AC-3; Dolby digital sound

Russian dialogue, English subtitles

Cannes Film Festival, 1972: Grand Prize of the Jury (Andrei Tarkovsky); FIPRESCI Award (Andrei Tarkovsky)