First Spaceship on Venus (1959)
Jun 19, 2005Soviet Space Mission
A Soviet space exploration film from East Germany concerning an expedition to Venus. This was the first film to depict an international space mission but proves stolid dramatically
Stanislaw Lem
Solaris (1972)
Jun 14, 2002Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memory
Called the Russian 2001. Andrei Tarkovsky makes one of the great SF films, a haunting ghost story set on a space station as an alien planet below drives the crew mad with recreated doppelgangers of their loved ones
Test Pilot Pirx (1979)
Dec 31, 2014Soviet SF/Android Saboteur Aboard a Space Mission
Soviet era science-fiction adapted from a work by Stanislaw Lem, the original author of Solaris. This heads into rather fascinating Philip K. Dick territory, becoming a whodunnit as the title hero tries to work out who aboard a space mission is an android saboteur
Solaris (2002)
Apr 1, 2003Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memory
Steven Soderbergh's English-language remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's epic SF film. Soderbergh trims Tarkovsky's long-windedness and makes the plot tighter, more intimate but this still emerges as a lesser version than the original
The Congress (2013)
Oct 9, 2013Virtual Actress/Future Shared Drug Hallucination
Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman adapts a work by Stanislaw Lem into a conceptually challenging part-animated film concerning a virtual actress and a future where the populace lives inside a drug-induced mass hallucination