THE VIDEO SHELF · tarkovsky science fiction film
Solaris | SCIENCE FICTION | FULL MOVIE | directed by Tarkovsky
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 HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a masterpiece of emotional, contemplative science fiction, and draws analogies between its alien ocean and AI.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Mosfilm
- Topic
- tarkovsky science fiction film
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Anyone else prefers Solaris over 2001? Both are great movies for sure but somehow Tarkovsky made everything more emotional and relatable. I love 2001 but to me Solaris is on another level (and Stalker too) If you have never watched it's on Youtube [VIDEO] (Mosfilm …
haunter on Hacker News · 2023-04
In 2001: A Space Odyssey2 years prior, in 1972, Andrei Tarkovsky adapted Stanisław Lem's Solaris to the big screen in the Soviet Union, which may have contributed to Dick's paranoia. Anyway, the film's a masterpiece that I highly recommend, and since it was published before 1975 it is not …
thrance on Hacker News · 2025-04
In Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.