SOLARIS

SOLARIS Steven Soderbergh Andriej Tarkowski LITERATY SOURCE Stanislaw Lem, "Solaris", 1961 SOLARIS, with whom terran scientists are attempting communication, is a planet almost completely cOvered with an ocean that is revealed to be a single, planet encompassing organism. What appear to be waves on its surface are later revealed to be the equivalents of muscle contractions. The book is about the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human 2002 ADAPTATION PLOT EMPHASIS 1972 ADAPTATION PLOT EMPHAS and non-human species. scientists' intergalactic love story inner lives RATING on imdb.com 62 8.0 TIME 99 min 165 min Z100 meters of film 4596 meters of film FILMING LOCATIONS Warner Brothers Studios Los Angeles. Calfornia. USA Mosfilm Studios Moscow. USSR Chicaga. Ilinois USA .--- . Baka Japan Hoover Dam, Arizona-Nevada border. USA --- --- Takya, Japan BOX OFFICE BUDGET $ 47 mln BUDGET $4 mln GROSS 10.5 mln tickets GROSS $ 15 mln