When his dead wife appears on a space station orbiting a thinking ocean, a guilt-ridden psychologist tricks her into a rocket and fires her away.

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When his wife, ten years dead, appears on a space station orbiting a thinking ocean, a guilt-ridden psychologist tricks her into a rocket and fires her away; but when she returns and works out that the planet copied her from his memory, he refuses to let the crew destroy her, though she begs for it.

Film: Solaris · Writer(s): Andrei Tarkovsky, Fridrikh Gorenshteyn · Director: Andrei Tarkovsky · Year: 1972