Layer Cake, Trurl's Machines, Sunday

Festival
HÕFF 2021
Programme
In Focus: Stanisław Lem 100

Films

Layer Cake

Local title
Kihiline
Original title
Przekładaniec
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Country
Poland
Year
1968
Programme
In Focus: Stanisław Lem 100
Genre
comedy, Sci-Fi

Richard Fox is a very successful car racer. Together with his brother Thomas, a superb pilot, they win many races. Unfortunately one of the races ends up tragically. Severely injured brothers are transported to a clinic run by a brilliant doctor, who specializes in transplantology. Richard survives the operation only thanks to the multiple organs transplanted from his brother. A scandal erupts when the widowed wife attempts to obtain her rightful compensation from the insurance company, which decides to pay out only 30 % of the total amount. They justify the decision by stating that only a part of the deceased was buried.

A film novel, completed at the end of 60’s, tells about the events taking place in the future, at the threshold of 21st century. Stanisław Lem, the author of the script, is a specialist in grotesque and works of fiction. Over 50 years have passed since the premiere of “Roly Poly” (Layer Cake). From then on, medicine has made a tremendous progress in transplantology.

What seemed to be a pure fantasy in the past, is real now.

Film screening presented by Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tallinn and Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

Director
Andrzej Wajda
Cast
Bogumil Kobiela, Ryszard Filipski, Anna Prucnal
DoP
Wieslaw Zdort
Composer
Andrzej Markowski
Production
Telewizja Polska (TVP)
Runtime
Language
Polish
Subtitles
English

Trurl's Machines

Local title
Trurli masin
Original title
Maszyna Trurla
Director
Jerzy Zitzman
Country
Poland
Year
1975
Programme
In Focus: Stanisław Lem 100
Genre
Sci-Fi, animation

A new version of the centuries-old story about an apprentice, transferred to the world of the future, where humans are replaced by robots.
Screened alongside the sci-fi comedy Layer Cake.

Film screening presented by Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Tallinn and Adam Mickiewicz Institute.

Director
Jerzy Zitzman
DoP
Zdzisław Poznański
Composer
Antoni Mleczko
Production
Studio Film w Rysunkowych
Runtime
Language
Polish
Subtitles
English

Sunday

Local title
Pühapäev
Director
Avo Paistik
Country
Estonia
Year
1977
Programme
In Focus: Stanisław Lem 100

About a man of the future, whose life passes among automata and robots.

Film screening presented by Embassy of the Republic of Poland.

Director
Avo Paistik
Screenwriter
Avo Paistik
DoP
Janno Põldma
Art director
Priit Pärn
Production
Eesti Joonisfilm
Runtime