East German Poster Database

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• Attentat im Morgengrauen
  This poster is a drawing of a man's face, in crosshatched red lines on a black background. In the black background, at the top, a train is steaming across a train trestle. It is dark blue behind the train. This film is Hungarian.
• Auf der Alm da gibt's koa Sünd
  This poster is a comic illustration of a fat blond man in a traditional Tyrolean suit and hat, with a flash camera, carrying a ladder away from a window. The shutters, with hearts carved into the wood, are open, and a woman is helping a man inside, as his legs dangle in the air. Around the side of the building, a couple in Tyrolean costume are kissing. There is a tower with an onion dome and a rooster weather vane beneath a crescent moon. This film is Austrian.
• Auf den Dächern von Budapest
  This poster is an illustration of three young men. Each has short dark hair, and a grey face. The man on the left is in a dark suit with a white shirt and tie; he is looking to his left, at the other two. The man in the abck has on a red sweater, with his hands in his pants pockets. The man on the right appears to lean on something; he is in dark clothing. The blue background forms a city skyline at the top of the poster, with a seafoam green sky above. This film is Hungarian.
• Ach, du fröliche...
  This poster is a mixed media illustration. It features three black and white photographs, each of an actor from the film. There is a young man from the shoulders up, in a suit; a young woman, in a turtleneck and dark pencil skirt, reaching down to take off her pumps; and an older man in a brimmed hat, overcoat, and knit scarf. The background is white, with a series of thin yellow stripes running vertically down in a repeated pattern. There is also a red crayon drawing of an elaborate mantel, shrine or stove, which the woman seems to be leaning on while taking off her shoes. This film is East German.
• Abseits von den Wegen (Wildmarksommer)
  This poster consists of a large black and white still from the film. It is a man on skis, in winter clothing, with a fur sack, leaning against his ski poles over a dead reindeer. There are three monochromatic yellow and black stills in the upper right hand corner of the poster. This film is Swedish.
• Alaska Füchse
  This poster is a blue graphic illustration of death's head, with fox's ears. There is an American Air Force symbol on the forehead, consisting of a star within a circle, with two bars on either side. There is a small red jet below and to the left of the skull, on a white background. This film is East German.
• Adresse unbekannt
  This poster is an illustraiton of a young woman with black hair, wearing a blue and red checked top, cradling a baby wearing a blue outfit. She has a brown leather strap over her shoulder. The background, in blue, black, and grey, is a night time street scene, with the Eiffel Tower and the river Seine behind her. Lights are reflecting on the water, and there is an overpass to her right, with a subway train rounding a bend, and a men looking out of the window of a black car with its headlights on. This film is French.
• Alwin der Letzte
  This poster is a mixed media illustration of a farmer, stading on top of a hay pile in the middle of a green field, with blue sky behind him and a white rooster and a large rat at his feet. Within the pink farmer's head is a black and white photograph of the face of Gerhard Bienert. He is wearing a blue jacket, red and white striped shirt, and purple trousers tucked into black boots. There is a pitchfork in the hay. He is holding a brown rooster in one arm; in the other arm he is cradling a baby. Within the baby's head is a black and white photograph of the face of Paul Henker, in a uniform kepi. This film is East German.
• Anna Susanna
  This poster is composed mainly of black and white stills from the film on a light blue background with white border. There is a rough white border around each image, with a cut out photographic image from the film in each bottom corner. The blue background is part of an illustration of a clipper ship sailing on the water at night. There is a full moon visible behind breaking dark clouds. This film is East German.
• Alles spricht gegen van Rooyen
  This poster is an illustration of the upper portion of a man's face. It is in purple and black, with white highlights, on a black and grey background. The grey portion of the background opens up into netting or chain link fence, which is superimposed over a pair of female red lips. This film is English.
• Adams Rippe
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a woman in a black overcoat, with a red and green striped scarf wrapped around her head and neck. There is a white cord hanging from it. She is looking up over her shoulder. On the yellow background, in the upper left hand corner, there is a grey and black line drawing of a young girl in a double breasted coat. This film is Bulgarian.
• Abenteuer um Mitternacht
  This poster is a mixed media illustration. It features a black and white photograph of a drinking glass, tilted to the left. The background of the poster is divided in half vertically, with the top being purple and the bottom black. Where the glass crosses the black horizon line, it has been printed in red. Thre is a white handprint on the black portion of the poster, which becomes black as it crosses onto the glass and the purple portion of the poster. This film is Bulgarian.
• Alfa-Romeo und Julia
  This poster is a painted illustration of a man in a red and blue striped outfit sitting on his haunches, with his hands on the ground between his bare feet. He has short, curly black hair, and a worried look on his face. There is a black and white dog standing between his arms. Above his head is the head of a woman with black hair twisting out to the sides like periwinkles attached to the side of her head. There is a blue circle on top of her forehead, with a small black circle in the center. The background is orange. This film is Hungarian.
• Auf der Sonnenseite
  This poster is a pen, ink, and watercolor illustration on a bright yellow background. At center is a man seated on a wooden chair, playing a purple guitar. He has a striped shirt, blue trousers, oxfords, and his lips are pursed for singing. A tiny woman in a red and grey striped body suit is floating horizontally by his neck, with her hands around it. She has her lips pursed to kiss him. By the leg of the chair is a tiny man in a waistcoat, with his hands on his brown jacket, looking up a the man in the chair. There is an overly long arm holding a bottle extended from the side of the poster to underneath the chair. This film is East German.
• Die Abenteuer des Till Ulenspiegel
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a man running, arms outstretched, on a white background. He is posed on an angle, and is outlined in thick black lines. He has short black hair, and a short jacket of grey, blue, red, green and burgundy, with blue trousers. This film is an East German and French coproduction.
• Der Amphibienmensch
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a man facing downward, wearing a teal green scuba suit, fins, and goggles on a black background. There are tiny white air bubbles all around him. This film is Soviet.
• Auf Zirkusbären schießt man nicht
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a large brown bear on a white background. He is standing upright, and wears small wire frame glasses on the end of his snout. He wears a broad yellow necktie, which melds into a large red target on his chest. The target consists of concentric rings of red, pink, yellow and orange with numbers in them. This film is Soviet.
• Der Aufstand
  This poster is a black and white photograph printed in a monochromatic yellow and black of a group of men and boys in traditional Romanian peasant outfits brandishing farm implements such as scythes and pitchforks. The man at the front has three small children in front of him, and he is holding a wooden club raised in his right hand. This film is Romanian.
• Anna Karenina
  This poster is a color still from the film, featuring Tatyana Samojlova as Anna Karenina and Vasili Lanovoy as Count Vronsky, dancing in a formal white ballroom. She is in a black gown and he is in a white dress uniform gold braid and epaulets. This film is Soviet.
• Abschied
  This poster consists of five pointilist portraits across the bottom on a black background. The first three, from left to right, are of the same young man: in left profile; yawning, front view; right profile. The next portrait is red, and is of a woman with lank, shoulder length hair, in left profile; the last portrait is a man, front view, with a mustache and receding hairline. This film is East German.
• Alle Jahre wieder
  This poster is a mixed media illustration of a man's face on a royal blue background. The face is a color photograph, which has been cut out in the shape of a mask, with blank eye holes, bounded by the nose and forehead. The eyes are crinkled as though smiling. The title, in white, directly below the mask, forms a beard. There is a red graphic of a candle stub, dripping wax, which is placed at the top center of the mask, with wax dripping down toward the blank eye. There is a black and white photograph of a woman with wings and a gossamer dress, which is floating on either side above the mask. This film is West German.
• Aktion Kalimantan
  This poster is a black on blue graphic illustration of a man who is running around or sliding down a rocky cliff, as his inside hand and leg are low to the ground, with his hand clutching at the rocks as his right arm swings around. This film is a Czechoslovakian and Indonesian coproduction.
• Ali Baba
  This poster is a pencil caricature of the French comic actor Fernandel on a bright yellow background. He is dressed in a pleated tunic, belted at the waist, with a cape over his shoulders, which is secured by a button at the neck. He has on a turban, and is carrying a decorated jug in his left hand. His right hand is raised, and he is smiling. This film is French.
• Am Anfang war es Liebe
  This poster is a watercolor illustration a red rose on a white background. The green stem has two leaves, one on either side. At the top, the stem is broken, and the flower hangs downward, with petals splayed. Within the flower is a monochromatic black and red print of a a young man and woman in traditional Bulgarian folk costume sitting next to one another. This film is Bulgarian.
• Der Arzt im Moor
  This poster is an illustration of a nighttime scene. There is a man in a pink shirt and dark pants standing in the water, with his hands above his head, against a tree limb. There is moonlight shining on his right side. The landscape is black, showing low, bare trees and dark water. There is a bright yellow moon. This film is Yugoslavian.