Another Harey later appears in the space station ... and Snaut are baptized by the ocean planet when their visitors enter the space station. At the end of the movie, Solaris transmits his father in ...

Incidentally, Steven Soderbergh used the same trick in his adaptation of Solaris, which showed viewers Kelvin and Harey’s past on Earth. However, Lem didn’t like Soderbergh’s version much either.

This story, told in Stanislaw Lem’s eponymous novel, was once adapted into the film Solaris by the legendary Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky. According to Deimantas Narkevičius ...