Trailer for Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solyaris" as a Horror Film

This is a trailer for Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 sci-fi masterpiece "Solyaris" re-interpreted as a horror film in the vein of "The Blair Witch Project." This is something that I've wanted to upload for quite some time, but I have never got the chance. Indeed, I am pretty sure that this is how some American distributors might have attempted to market the film, given that the Cold War was still occurring at the time.

Make no mistake, though - it is not my intention to mock Tarkovsky at all. Rather, the mockery is directed at the American distributors' attempts to discredit the Russian director by misrepresenting his film, all for some cheap patriotism.

The music is "Meditation" by Eduard Artemyev, the same composer who wrote the soundtrack for "Solyaris." Artemyev originally wrote this haunting tune for another Tarkovsky film, namely "Stalker."

I would like to give apologies (and thanks) to the various people who provided the footage, and to blackjack990 for the music, and a very special thanks to Mr. Tarkovsky for his thought-provoking and utterly otherworldly film.

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• Solyaris
• Andrei Tarkovsky
• Stanislaw Lem
• Donatas Banionis
• Natalya Bondarchuk
• Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
• Anatoly Solonitsyn
• Juri Jarvet
• Eduard Artemyev
• Meditation
• Stalker
• Trailer
• Horror
• Teaser
• Russia
• Moscow
• Studio Mosfilm