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- Lem’s primary problem with Tarkovsky’s version was that the filmmaker focused his investigation on the philosophical implications of the sentient ocean on the human rather than the ocean itself. The Polish novelist dismissed Tarkovsky’s film as a sci-fi Crime and Punishment rather than a Solaris adaptation.
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Andrei Tarkovsky’s Cannes-lauded 1972 film ‘Solaris’, based on Stanisław Lem’s novel of the same name, is considered a masterpiece. But here’s the paradox: the Polish author felt very negatively about the Russian director’s adaptation of his novel. Culture.pl’s Igor Belov gives us the full story.
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Oct 30, 2020 · The Polish novelist dismissed Tarkovsky’s film as a sci-fi Crime and Punishment rather than a Solaris adaptation. Due to the fact that Lem’s concerns did not align with Tarkovsky’s, both the film and the book have become separate literary entities in their own rights.
Lem went as far as to say that Tarkovsky made Crime and Punishment rather than Solaris, omitting epistemological and cognitive aspects of his book. But Lem also said in an interview that he had only seen part of the finale, much later, after Tarkovsky's death.
May 24, 2011 · In the early 1970s, Tarkovsky, unable to get approval for a script that was considered too personal-obscurantist, proposed a film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris, thinking it stood a better chance of being green-lit by the commissars, as science fiction seemed more “objective” and accessible to the masses.
Feb 14, 2019 · Much has been said and written about how Lem wasn't really happy about the way his work was adapted to film, and how Tarkovsky on the other hand was in a sense making an anti-SF film, stating that he doesn't like SF -- when the world around us is full of the fantastic, anyway.
May 13, 2024 · The 1972 adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s book directed by Andrei Tarkovsky sparked a conflict between the two. EDITORIAL team. 13 May 2024. This happened because Lem didn’t like the vision of the Soviet director. As he claimed – Tarkovsky didn’t shoot Solaris, but Crime and Punishment.
Jan 27, 2023 · Lem considered the two versions to have missed his original purpose and accused Tarkovsky of remaking Crime and Punishment. In response to Soderbergh’s version, Lem said that his book “was not dedicated to erotic problems of people in outer space.”
