Stanislaw lem novel (3 resultados)

Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1960 East German-Polish film. Based on Stanis aw Lem's 1951 novel "The Astronauts," about a team of astronauts who discover the remains of a long-dead civilization on Venus. Released in the US-with much of the film's socialist messaging removed-as a double feature with the 1958 Japanese monster film "Varan the Unbelievable." Shot on location in Zakopane and Wroc aw, Poland. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus, two with bruises on the bottom margins, and one with a tide mark on the bottom right corner.…

Vintage double weight borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actors Natalya Bondarchuk and Donatas Banionis. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, specific to the film's UK release. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1961 novel by Stanislaw Lem, about a psychologist who is sent to a distant space station in order to observe and treat the station's crew, who have fallen into unexplained mental and emotional disorder. An open-ended and conceptually faithful adaptation of Lem's novel, concerning itself with the inability of the human species to communicate with other intelligent life forms, based simply on the fact that a more advanced life form would exist outside the sphere of human experience and understanding. Set in outer space, and shot on location in Ukraine, Japan, and Russia. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 164.…

Set of 16 vintage oversize black-and-white still photographs from the Russian release of the 1972 Russian film. On the verso of each photograph is a label for a European distributor. Often cited as one of the most important films in the history of cinematography, "Solaris" is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The scientific mission has stalled out because the meager skeleton crew of three scientists have fallen into separate emotional crises, and the gaseous planet below them is beginning to look like the main suspect. An open ended and conceptually faithful adaptation of Lem's novel, concerning itself with the inability of the human species to communicate with other intelligent life forms, based simply on the fact that a more advanced life form would exist outside the sphere of human experience and understanding. 9.25 x 12 inches. Near Fine, with only the most minute wear at the edges. Criterion Collection 164.…