Being shown as part of BAM/PFA's "From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema" film series.
In Andrei Tarkovsky's influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanislaw Lem, "the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own."
Official Website: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/russian_cinema
Added by tylix on August 7, 2007