The text tackles two film adaptations of the science fiction novel Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, the first one being Andrei Tarkovsky’s adaptation from 1972 and the second Steven Soderbergh’s from 2002. The author tries to analyse the manner in which the two directors interpret and transpose the literary work into film. He focuses on certain differences between Lem’s novel and the two film adaptations in an attempt to determine Tarkovsky’s and Soderbergh’s creative detachments and the role of that creative detachment in the structure of the two films.

Dinko Štimac