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Professor Zazul
(Profesor Zazul)
Poland 1962
Marek Nowicki, Jerzy Stawicki
22 min.

The adventures, often comic or satirical, of space explorer Ijon Tichy were the subject of more than a few Stanisław Lem stories. In this horror-like short, made for Polish TV, Ijon (Piotr Kurowski) is forced to take refuge in the creepy home of a mysterious scientist (Stanisław Milski), and makes a disturbing discovery. 

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Maska
Poland/​United Kingdom 2010
Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
23 min.

Renowned stop-motion puppet animators and surrealists Stephen and Timothy Quay (Street of Crocodiles) directed this adaptation of Lem’s eponymous short story, the nightmarish tale of a beautiful automaton who begins to question the deadly purpose for which she was created. Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki wrote the score.

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