Jens-Peter Proll

director
Feature Film

Lem’s Star Diaries

Professor Tarantoga und sein seltsamer Gast

According to Fernsehen der DDR, the German adaptation of Lem’s script finds the science-obsessed Professor Tarantoga with a strange guest who calls himself Novak (or maybe Hipperkorn) and claims to hail from fourth-millennium Mars where he quulles. part from the bit about quuelling, this certainly sounds like the 1963 Polish script that we read, but we don't know whether it was expanded or revised. —based on Ffernsehen der DDR
Volkmar Kleinert (as Novak-Kleinert) and Eberhard Esche (as Professor Tarantoga) are in deep conversation behind a lab bench loaded with glassware and other equipment.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel