Soviet Film Poster

ソ連映画ポスター / 1924–1932 / Style / Regional Graphics

The revolutionary-era film posters the Stenberg brothers built in lithography: photomontage-like giant faces, careening letters and violently exaggerated perspective translating cinematic motion onto a sheet of paper.

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Soviet Film Poster — Battleship Potemkin poster, 1925 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Battleship Potemkin poster, 1925 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

Soviet Film Poster — Nikolai Prusakov, Ranks and People, 1929 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain — Nikolai Prusakov, Ranks and People, 1929 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain

At a glance

Visual cues

Giant faces
Careening lettering
Exaggerated perspective
Flat lithographic color

Best used for

Film festival and repertory bills that compress a film's motion into one sheet
Music or theatre announcements where a static page needs speed and elation

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Dictionary entry

Type: Heavy sans running on a slant, size shifting word by word
Composition: One face blown past the edge, radiating diagonals splitting the rest
Material: About three flat inks, photographs coarsened into visible halftone
Caution: Copying only the slant and the scale leaves a decoration where neither the star's face nor the title can be read.
Further study: the Stenberg brothers / their projector-enlargement technique / the end under socialist realism

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Constructivism (構成主義)Shared effects: Rebellion / Exhilaration.Compare Soviet Film Poster and Constructivism
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