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Hungarian director Pater Sparrow is wrapping up an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s One Human Minute, and Twitch has pointed out a new trailer with English subtitles. The film, retitled 1, revolves around an investigation into an incident where a bookstore’s entire stock is transformed into copies of a book that tells details everything that happens to humanity in the span of a minute. Stanislaw Lem’s work hasn’t frequently been tapped for film, but he wrote Solaris, which was adapted by both Andrei Tarkovsky (in 1972) and Steven Soderbergh (in 2002).
I’m pretty sure there is no word on whether or not this will hit the United States yet, but the film’s official site does have an English option, so I can assume they’re open to getting it here. Now to hope someone picks it up for at least home video release. I’m always hungry for intelligent science fiction. Follow the jump for the trailer and a longer synopsis.
Full synopsis:
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.
