East German Poster Database

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• Aus meinem Leben (Bedřich Smetana)
  This poste is a watercolor illustration of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana and a woman in a pink and white striped dress and straw hat sitting at the water's edge by a small waterfall. There is an open parasol in front of his hand. There is yellow and green foliage around them. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Arena der Kuhnen
  This poster is an illustration of a man walking a tightrope with the faces of a circus ring peering up at him. He is wearing blue pants, shirt, and red tie, and his arms are spread wide, with four colored rings twirling on them. He wears a beanie with an umbrella on it, and has a small umbrella between his teeth. There are spotlights on him. This film is Soviet.
• Aufenthalt vor Vera Cruz
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a young blonde woman, her head raised slightly, with a rosary around her neck. In the background is a painting of a brown skinned man, dancing, barefoot, in rough grey pants and a blue shirt with a straw hat. In the background is a pen and ink sketch of two men in typical Mexican attire playing guitars and singing at a cafe table. There is a bottle laying on teh ground. This film is a French and Mexican coproduction.
• Abseits vom Leben
  This poster is a photomontage of black and white images of the lead characters in the film, in monochromatic prints of blue, orange and pink on a yellow and black background. Thin white highlights have been drawn into the hair, mustache, and eyes of the older man in blue. This film is in Estonian with German subtitles.
• Alarm in den Bergen
  This poster is an illustration of a man and woman, all in shades of purple with yellow highlights on her face and chest. She is younger, and wears a peasant blouse pulled off her shoulders. He is older, and is at her side, with his hands grabbing both of her arms from behind. There are two pink lights in the background, which is dark purple. The pink lights reflect on her dark hair and shoulders. This film is Romanian.
• Jugendsünde
  This poster is an illustration of a woman with blonde hair worn in a bun on top of her head, naked,sitting up, holding a young man's head to her bosom. He wears a white collared shirt, and there is a white sheet covering them. The background is white with pink. This film is French.
• Die Journalisten
  This poster is a colored pencil and pastel illustration of a young woman with red hair, in profile, on a variegated blue background. She is wearing a tan coat with a purple edge along the cuffs and lapels, and a red beanie. Thre is a red, blue, and yellow striped scarf around her neck. She is holding a teal blue fountain pen raised in her right hand. This film is Soviet.
• Jenseits des Rechts
  This poster is an graphic illustration of Van Johnson and Vera Miles. He is wearing a judicial robe, and is holding a piece of paper in his hand that Vera Miles is grabbing for. The background is white, with a large image of the German symbol for a judicial paragraph in blue ben-day dots. There is a smaller version of the symbol in red dots below the title. This film is English.
• Jooseppi
  This poster is an illustration of a man with black hair, beard, and mustache, in a blue and white striped shirt, standing outside. There is snow on the ground, the trees are bare, and the sky is pink. This film is Finnish.
• Juwelen Räuber werden gejagt
  This poster is a photomontage. The background is a yellow and black monochromatic print of a typewritten sheet with the word "Raubüberfall" repeated on it again and again. At the center, the typewritten image is peeled back to reveal a white underside. In its place is a man's face, half in black, half in white. The bridge of his nose is formed by the leg of a man, dressed all in black, carrying a briefcase. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Julika, mit der Stupsnase
  This poster is a mixed media illustration. It consists of a black and white photograph of a young couple. The boy is holding the girl, in a bikini, in his arms. She has her arms around his shoulders, and is holding a pair of green sandals in one hand. There is a large red heart, the bottom of which is superimposed over their heads, at the center of the poster. There are yellow flames and grey smoke tendrils coming off the cleft of the heart. The background is white. This film is Hungarian.
• Junitage
  This poster is an illustration of a young couple standing in a field. He has short black hair, and wears a grey jacket and pants. She has shoulder length brown hair, and is wearing a red and grey checked dress. He is reaching for her outstretched hand. The grass around them is tall, with one low branch or bush off to the side. The sky is blue and white. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Jan Hus
  This poster is an illustration of a man with shoulder length dark hair in a black priest's cassock. He has arms stretched out at his side. In the background is a black line drawing of a 14th century European town, likely Prague, with a linge of men on horseback, carrying halberds, making there way towards it on a dirt track over low green hills with scrubby, nude trees. The sky is orange, with blue watercolor streaks. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Der junge Rebell
  This poster is a black drawing of a young person with their face pressed close to an automatic machine gun on a tripod. They have both hands on the gun, and the long barrel is pointing downward. The background is red, with a white and blue border. This film is Cuban. It was the first Cuban film shown in the DDR.
• Jene Jahre in Hollywood
  This poster is a black and white illustration of Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. The illustration is upright on a pink, blue, green and yellow background, and casts a shadow on the pink. There is a shadow of a woman in the left foreground. To the right of the image is a man, hand's at his side, looking at his shadow. This film is American.
• Junger, Sie gefällt mir
  This poster is a color still from the film of a young woman, with her brown hair piled on top of her head. Water is being poured from a stone vessel onto her bare back. This film is East German.
• Die junge Frau von BAI-SAO
  This poster is a very blurred monochromatic red and black photograph of a woman, with her head titled back, holding her hand to her mouth as though to call out. The background is red. This film is Vietnamese.
• Julia, du bist zauberhaft
  This poster is a mixed media illustration, which features a black and white photograph of Lilli Palmer's head, with two pink wings, hovering on a white background beneath a red, raised theater curtain with a yellow tasseled cord. There are blue, purple, yellow, pink, and orange hands reaching for the head. This film is an Austrian and French coproduction.
• Jacke wie Hose
  This poster consists of a half circle of black and white film stills, each slightly overlapping the other, on a yellow background. There is also a graphic illustration at the bottom of a group of men and women in work clothes, watching one woman in a cart slide down a ramp. The women are all in overalls, save one in an house coat holding a stop watch. The men are all holding various tools, save the one in front, who is holding a meerschaum pipe. This film is East German.
• In jenen Tag
  This poster is a black line drawing of a woman with short, dark hair wearing an olive drab dress, with a beaded necklace or rosary. She wears an artillery belt, with a pistol at her side. Behind her are simple line drawings of palm trees, foliage, and low hills on a yellow background. This film is Cuban.
• Das indiskrete Zimmer
  This poster is a black and white drawing on a bright pink background of a woman in a black dress, standing in the middle of a room with a wide, plank floor. There is a wash basin in an iron stand in front of a wooden chair, and a baby bassinet on rockers with a tall canopy with a lace edge at the head. The woman has thick, dark hair, parted down the middle, and her left hand is raised to her head. This film is English.
• Intime Beleuchtung
  This poster is a blurred painting of a group of four figures in black. Three of them have their arms raised to their mouths; their helds are tilted back,a nd they seem to be pouring a cocktail into them. The man at center holds a violin at his side; the woman next to him is holding a trombone. There are three black roosters at their feet. The background is white, interspersed with areas of green, pink, and grey. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Immer wenn es Tag wird
  This poster is a mixed media illustration. It features a black and white photograph of a young man and woman, talking. He is in a dark suit and patterned tie; she is in a green and black top. In the background is a residential street scene, with apartment buildlings in grey and pink, with laundry hanging across the balconies. There is a blue sky with white cloud cover. This film is Soviet.
• In so einer Nacht
  This poster is an illustration of a woman with two small children. The youngest she is holding in her arms; his arms are about her neck. Only the head of the other child is visible at her shoulder. Is is night time, and they are dressed for cold weather. The boy has on a knit brown and orange cap; the girl has a hood or scarf over her head. The headlights of the scribbled outline of a car and some pine tree tops are visible against the very dark background. This film is Norwegian.
• Der Idiot
  This poster is a mixed media illustration of a man's face, in black and purple with white highlights. He has a small goatee, and his short hair is unkempt. He is hunched over a pile of pink German banknotes, folded over; white smoke rises from them against the black background. This film is Soviet.