The title of the film was variously translated into English as Layer Cake (literal meaning),[2] Hodge Podge,[3] or Roly Poly.
[4][8] In Lem's original work, they were Harry Jones, a racer after series of car accidents, and his unnamed brother, who suffered a plane crash.
The company sues him for return of all prostheses, but the lower court rejected the claim because it would be equivalent of killing Jones.
The company tricked him into replacing the remaining half-brain and then sued with the demand to acquire Jones as its property in lieu of debt.
[1] Roly Poly is also the title of a 1969 TV play from the BBC Television Thirty-Minute Theatre adapted from Lem's screenplay.
In 1989, Soviet film director Pyotr Shtein [ru] shot a TV play Sandwich (Russian: Бутерброд) based on Lem's screenplay.
[14] Polish puppet master and director Krzysztof Rau [pl] staged a play entitled "Czy Pan istnieje, Mr Johnes?
Actor Michał Jarmoszuk rendered the metamorphoses of the protagonist well, with multiple personalities, multigenderness, and even the multi-species body of Mr.
The plot was translated under several titles: "Слоеный пирог" ["Layered Cake"] (1972, 1979), "Мозаика" ["Mosaic"] (1973), "Бутерброд" ["Sandwich"] (1973)[17]