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Lem’s works on screen

Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A manuscript and film set evoke screen adaptations of three Lem works; this is an editorial reconstruction, not production documentation.

AI-generated editorial reconstruction of a generic late-1960s Polish science-fiction film set; not a still from Wajda’s film.

AI-generated editorial reconstruction of a 1980s television studio preparing a science-fiction stage play; not a still from the named 1989 production.

portrait of Lem in 1966; courtesy of secretary Wojciech Zemek; Lem estate permission, CC BY-SA 3.0. Attribution: Stanisław Lem / courtesy Wojciech Zemek / CC BY-SA 3.0. [Original](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem.jpg).

portrait by Mariusz Kubik, 2005; CC BY 2.5. Attribution: Mariusz Kubik / CC BY 2.5. [Original](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanislaw_Lem_by_Kubik.JPG).

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Титульна AI-згенерована ілюстрація / AI-generated cover illustration. A manuscript and film set evoke screen adaptations of three Lem works; this is an editorial reconstruction, not production documentation.

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Andrei Tarkovsky adapted Stanisław Lem’s novel *Solaris* for the screen in 1972. Another work, Lem’s humorous story “Czy pan istnieje, mister Jones?” (“Are You There, Mr. Jones?”), formed the basis of Andrzej Wajda’s 1968 film *Przekładaniec*. The same work also inspired Piotr Stein’s 1989 television play *Sandwich*.