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Soviet cinema

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Editorial composition on Tarkovsky, Solaris and Stalker as a poetic and metaphysical answer to Kubrick.

December 5, 2025

Soviet Science-Fiction Cinema: Tarkovsky's Answer to Kubrick

How Andrei Tarkovsky shaped a poetic, metaphysical alternative to Western science fiction in Solaris and Stalker.

Tarkovsky Solaris Stalker Soviet cinema science fiction

Soviet-inspired composition on Ikarie X-B 1 with spacecraft, lunar orbit, antennas and crew on a screen.

March 6, 2025

The Extraterrestrial in the Soviet Cold War Context: Ikarie X-B 1

Soviet science-fiction cinema during the Cold War, centred on Jindrich Polak's Ikarie X-B 1.

Ikarie X-B 1 Soviet cinema Cold War space race