Cinematic Adaptations
Solaris has been filmed three times:
- Solaris (1968 TV film), directed by Boris Nirenburg.
- Solaris (1972 film), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film loosely follows the novel’s plot, emphasizing the human relationships instead of Lem’s astrobiology theories — especially Kelvin’s Earth life, before his space travel to the planet. The film won the Grand Prix at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.
- Solaris (2002 film), directed by Steven Soderbergh, produced by James Cameron, emphasizes the relationship between Kelvin and his dead wife — again excluding Lem's scientific and philosophic themes.
Lem himself observed that neither film depicts much of the extraordinary physical and psychological "alienness" of the Solaris ocean: "I only wanted to create a vision of a human encounter with something that certainly exists, in a mighty manner perhaps, but cannot be reduced to human concepts, ideas or images".
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