East German Poster Database

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• Der Platz ders Aufstandes
  This poster has a watercolor wash background of light red and pink. There is a white negative space which forms the outline of a man; there is a dotted black line within it. The man is holding a red musical instrument case in his left hand. This film is Soviet.
• Das Patenkind
  This poster is a black and white photograph of a piece of white paper that has been folded to look like an ascending staircase, which is jagged and torn at the top step. This film is Polish.
• Patience
  This poster is a color photograph of two Czechoslovakian playing cards tented together at their top edges another against a red background. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Probe Aufnahmen
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a figure in an long sleeved orange athletic jersey with the number "3" on it, on a green background. Rather than a head there is a black and white film slate with the film's Polish title written on it, along with the German word for sound and the Polish for pictures on each side. This film is Polish.
• Preis der Freiheit
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a black panther standing on its hind legs. There is a sword piercing its breast, and red blood streams down the blade. The panther's mouth is open and is bright red. The background is grey with a black border. This film is Soviet.
• Pratidvandi
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a young man's face floating on a grey background. He has black hair, and there is a multicolored bird at the hairline. The upper left and lower right corners are saffron yellow, with an illustrated border between them. This film is Indian.
• Die Prämie
  This poster has a black outline of an upright hand holding a pencil. The pencil and hand have been colored in red; there is heavy black scribbling over the image and the lower part of the poster. This film is Soviet.
• Der Pfadfinder
  This poster is a photographic illustration of a knife with a rope wrapped around the blade, which is cutting through it; it is resting on a white background with ice and water droplets. This film is Norwegian.
• Peters Jugend II. Teil
  This poster is a monochromatic yellow and black illustration of Peter the Great as a young man, dressed as a Christian Tartar, with an elaborate beaded and jeweled tunic and fur hat; he holds an ax upright in his right hand and a carpenter's plane in the other. This film is an East German and Soviet coproduction.
• Peters Jugend I. Teil
  This poster is a mixed media illustration of a large coiled snake; it has the head of actor Dmitri Zolotukhin as Peter the Great, and the head of Tamara Makarova as the Czarina for the raised tail. The entire poster is a monochromatic light green and black. The photographs are This film is an East German and Soviet coproduction.
• Pestalozzis Berg
  This poster is a black and white close up photograph of a man with longish brown hair. There are thick smears of white paint on the photograph, and brush strokes that make it seem as though it has been varnished over. This film is East German.
• Piraten des 20. Jahrhunderts
  This poster is an image of a large white passenger ship on the water, at the very top of the poster. The reflection of the boat on the grey water is a white death's head. There is a black border. This film is Soviet.
• Pintea den Häschern entkommen
  This poster is entirely black except for the very top, which bleeds into the royal blue cape of a man in a black turban, his arm raised with a scimitar drawn behind him to strike. The background behind his head is red with a yellow center. This film is Romanian.
• Phoenix
  This poster is a black silhouette of a man's head and upper chest on an overall grid of black on white. There is a chain around his neck with a tag hanging from it that says "Phoenix." The back of his head has a red brainwave print out that says "programm" on it; there are dashed lines extending from the graph down his head. There is a black outline of a vise grip clamped to his head; large numbers printed beneath it with dashed lines coming from them correspond to the dashed lines of the brain wave chart. This film is East German.
• Pharao
  The main design element of this poster is the title, which is written in three dimensional black crayon, and casts a shadow on the background, which is sandy yellow, with a white stripe and blue sky above the horizon. The "A"s in the title are shaped like pyramids. This film is Polish.
• Pugowitza
  This poster consists of a close-up color still of a little boy with straight light brown hair and an orange and brown plaid shirt, with his face turned to look over his shoulder. This film is East German.
• Der Prinz und der Abendstern
  A young man is walking into the woods with a sword raised above his head, which is crowned. He has on a red tunic with puffy white sleeves with red dots, red breeches, and knee boots. The trees all have eyes, and knots in the wood are open mouths. There is a snake coiled around one of the branches; The knots also hold an owl, an alligator, a bird, and a mole. There is a green light shining through the trees, with a bright blue starburst at the center of it. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Platz oder Sieg?
  This poster is a watercolor illustration on a pink, flecked background. Along the lower left hand side is the portrait of a young girl with short brown hair tucked under a black riding helmet. She is wearing green and white silks, and brown leather goggles hand in front of her chest. There is dirt on her face. There is a brown horse with a white blaze in the upper right hand corner. This film is East German.
• Der Puppenspieler
  This poster is a color photograph of Jean-Paul Belmondo in a top hat. There is a light green border around the photo, with angled corners; it has a violet background around that. The lower left hand corner is peeled up, revealing the blue and grey stripe sof a concentration camp prison uniform beneath his tux. This film is a French and Italian coproduction.
• Plädoyer für sensible Riesen
  This poster is a mixed media illustration of a group of walruses on a beach. The image is printed in a deep blue; there is a grey graphic image at the center which is the German symbol for a law. In the middle is an image of a red and white striped life ring; the portion of the walrus photograph within is in full color. This film is Soviet.
• Ohne Vater
  This poster is a graphic illustration of two pairs of shoes and a set of shoe prints on a mushroom grey background. One pair of shoes are blue women's pumps, the others are smaller yellow oxfords. This film is Soviet.
• Der Ölprinz
  This poster is a pastel portrait that blends two men; one an Indian, the other a man with a white scarf wrapped around him and a cowboy hat. The background is tan, with a black shadow behind the cowboy. This film is a West German and Yugoslavian coproduction.
• Olle Henry
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a pair of men's legs in slouchy grey pants and wing tops. A woman's leg, in black stocking and high heels, is wrapped around his legs. Just visible at the top of the poster is a brown briefcase with metal corners. The background is tan, with black splotches. There is a red squiggly line around the legs. This film is East German.
• Der Offizier mit der Rose
  This poster is a photomontage of a long grey shirt on a wooden hanger, with the sleeves rolled up. There is a burned area on the chest, which holds a color photograph of the head of a young blond woman. There is pink spray across the shirt and the white background of the poster. This film is Yugoslavian.
• Ödipussi
  This poster is a color still of Evelyn Hamann in a black suit in a formal room. He is holding a bolding of champagne wrapped in plastic film. This film is East German.