I have a Russian poster for "To Be Or Not To Be" for the first Russian release
in 1963, which I think has the smartest art of any I have seen for this film:
Benny's Hamlet costume on a clothes hangar with a nazi cap propped on top.
Like a lot of the best Russian poster art it's an elegant halfway house between
the literalism of the western versions and the sometimes screamingly obtuse
[but fun] mittel-european stuff [the Polish poster for "After Hours" springs to
mind]. The other great joy of Russian posters is that the bottom margin has a
wealth of fascinating production data that doesn't quite run to listing the
poster designer's blood type and social security number but comes close!
Cheers, Neil
Richard Halegua Comic Art <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a load of them last
year.. you clearly don't watch MPB
also, within certain parameters, it is illegal to ship pre-1960
posters out of Russia
another factor may be that most Russian posters are of films that we
know nothing about - so there is a lack of interest
At 02:09 PM 2/27/2008, you wrote:
>Interesting... I like the Polish art. Wonder why we dont see many
>Russia posters??
>
>did the art suck?? maybe they threw them away or used for war effort
>
>Richard Halegua Comic Art wrote:
>
>>Tom
>>
>>Soviet bloc nations that had posters include
>>
>>Poland
>>Czechoslovakia
>>the Ukraine
>>and Mother Russia
>>I'm sure there are others as well
>>
>>Rich=========
>>
>>
>>At 01:57 PM 2/27/2008, Tom Martin wrote:
>>
>>>OK - I have a question...may be the most stupid asked ...
>>>
>>>I started wondering what countries have Movie poster art... I know
>>>there are Canada.Japan, UK, French, German, Italian, Romainian,
>>>Polish, mexico , Argentina, Austrilia, US and Swedish, and maybe a
>>>few Im missing
>>>
>>>However are there Posters from like Phillipines, or vietnam, or
>>>various Russian , China, Norway?
>>>
>>>Hong Kong, or other countries? Is there a comprehensive list
>>>anywhere? Sounds like a Job for Sue and Ed
>>>
>>>stupid enquiring minds want to know. also..:)..
>>>
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