Solaris (1972)

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

• 1970s
• astronaut
• extraterrestrial technology
• hallucination
• loss of sense of reality
• russian
• soviet
• soviet union
• space travel
• subconsciousness