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1
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Thursday 29 April 9.30pm
£6.50/£6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Peter Sparrow / Hungary / 2009 / 91 mins / Cert: 15 | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | 1 is set in a bookshop mysteriously filled with only copies of a book called “1” that contains the fate of humanity in one minute. It is the end of another working day in a bookshop renowned for its vast collection of rare works. The manageress, the owner and the janitor are closing up. A mysterious customer suddenly appears and claims to have travelled the globe in search of a book that he dreamt of being in this shop and he asks to be taken to the storeroom.
They are stunned to discover that all the books in the storeroom have been replaced by thousands of copies of the same unknown work and when they return to the shop, they see that the same has happened to all of the books that were on display just a moment before. They have all been replaced by a book with no author and no publisher that carries the simple title “1”.
This very clever movie is based on an essay by the late, great Polish SF writer, Stanislaw Lem (Solaris).
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