SOLARIS VS 2001: ODISEEA SPAȚIALĂ – SPAȚIUL ÎNTRE SPIRIT ȘI MATERIE
SOLARIS VS 2001: THE SPACEODYSSEY - THE SPACE BETWEEN SPIRIT AND MATTER

Summary/Abstract: The following article follows the similarities and differences between 2001 - A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick (1968) and Solaris, directed by Andrei Tarkovski (1972). Departing from that, I tried to emphasize how these two movies, along with the historical context of their production, constituted a fertile background for further innovations in many fields, such as cinematography, science, literature, music and history. I began this article by briefly presenting the main plots of both movies and tried afterwards to foresee both similarities and differences. After those initial careful considerations, I tried to present their impact on other people and other important fields. Both Tarkovski and Kubrick managed to influence not only the development of the science fiction (SF) genre in cinema, but also helped various people creating similar visions about the space in domains such as science, literature or music. From Star Wars to the Space X project and from the release in 1973 of The Dark Side of the Moon to many other recently released movies, both Tarkovski and Kubrick have a profound cultural, historical and even sociological impact on how science fiction was perceived by the general public and by other very important influencers, such as George Lucas, Carl Sagan and many other cultural and scientific personalities of the 20th and the 21st centuries.

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