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Solaris | SCIENCE FICTION | FULL MOVIE | directed by Tarkovsky

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What it is

Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 film Solaris, in which a psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet with an alien intelligence and meets his dead wife there. It is the full movie, uploaded by Mosfilm.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a masterpiece of emotional, contemplative science fiction, and draws analogies between its alien ocean and AI.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “Solaris is on another level”

    Tarkovsky's Solaris, emotional and relatable sci-fi

    haunter, 2023-04 · Strong recommendation · in “2001: A Space Odyssey”

  2. “the film's a masterpiece that I highly recommend”

    Tarkovsky's Solaris, public domain on YouTube

    thrance, 2025-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: solaris, tarkovsky, science fiction, film, stanislaw lem

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