Based on a novel by Stanislaw Lem, Solaris centers on widowed psychologist Kris Kelvin (Donata Banionis), who is sent to a space station orbiting a water-dominated planet called Solaris to investigate the mysterious death of a doctor, as well as the mental problems plaguing the dwindling number of cosmonauts on the station. Solaris is a second adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s work: He was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire. In 1976 Lem was called the most widely read science-fiction writer in the world. His works explore philosophical themes; speculation on technology, the nature of intelligence, the impossibility of mutual communication and understanding, despair about human limitations and humanity’s place in the universe. They are sometimes presented as fiction, but other are in the form of essays or philosophical books. Translations of his works are difficult due to passages with elaborate word formation alien or robotic poetry, and puns. behindthecurtain.eu/event/details/solaris/
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