East German Poster Database

Items

• Waltzen für Millionen
  This poster is an illustration of a man in green pants and an orange jacket bending forward, blowing on a trumpet in a stadium lined with flags and people on a pink background. Just behind him is a woman in a white dress, belted at teh waist, with her hand to her ear, leaning over one leg. This image is repated, with her leaning to alternate sides, twice. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Der Weg zum Glück
  This poster is an illustration of a young woman, driving a blue convertible past trees with bright yellow foliage. She is blonde, with a beret, and a blue coat over a red polka dot shirt. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Warschauer Premiere
  This poster is a painting of a man in a formal frock coat sitting at a piano with sheet music in front of him. He wears small, wire rim glasses. In front of the piano is a woman with a bare neck and shoulders, wearing a pearl choker, earrings, and pearls intertwined through her dark hair, which is worn up. Behind them, in a burgundy, are tiers of people in opera boxes. The curtain is directly behind him, and there is a scene on stage from the opera Halka. There is a man in traditional peasant dress, holding an ax up in the air in front of a cabin and pine trees. This film is a 1938 Polish production; the collection holds the same poster, with this title painted over and given the new title of "Der Oper Halka."
• Das Wirtshaus im Spessart
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a young woman dressed as a young man, in green pants, a red and white shirt, and a green cap. She has a brace of pistols, and a pistol raised in her right hand. There is a black strap across her chest, with a purple buckle. She has a red kerchief around her neck, and is smiling. Her skin is orange. Behind her is a black line drawing of a dilapidated Central European farm house, with a double door falling off its hinges. There is a moon and birds flying over the roof, which has plants growing out of it. The background consists of tall, light purple tree trunks on a white background.
• Wenn die Tiefstrahler verlöschen
  This poster is a black and white drawing of two menin boxing trunks boxing, while a referee crouches down, observing the punch about to land. The boxer about to be hit has his arm stretched out, and his glove is just touching a very large sheaf of lira notes. The background is black and white. This film is Italian.
• Wenn alle Menschen der Welt…
  This poster is a painted and drawn illustration of a black man clutching onto an object in black, turbulent water on a white background. Over his left shoulder is a drawing of a large fishing vessel. There are white concentric circles drawn over it, radiating outwards toward the man. Along the top edge of the poster are vertical illustrations of the German, Swiss, Soviet, French, Polish, Norwegian, and American flags. This film is French.
• Weil du arm bist musst du früher sterben
  This poster has a large diagonal cross on a blue background. The cross is composed of three black and white stills from the film, which has a smaller yellow cross superimposed on it. At top is a woman standing next to a man who is holding a small boy in his arms. In the middle is a man with a stethoscope at the bedside of a woman. At bottom is the same man at the bedside of an older man who is clutching a handkerchief; he is holding a cup up to him. This film is West German.
• Was sagt meine Frau dazu?
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a couple standing arm in arm in front of a low, black and white drawing of a European city street, with shops, hotels, and stone towered houses in a row. She is an a low cut pink dress, with a pink and white striped handkerchief over her blond hair; he is in a blue suit, holding a brown satchel with travel stickers on it, and pointing his hand away from her. This film is a Polish and Czechoslovakian coproduction.
• Ware für Katalonien
  This poster is a black and white photographic montage on a black background. It features a large image of the end of a camera lens, which is reflecting a four light window. In the foreground are two men, one is in a suit, smoking a cigarette, with a sheaf of money in his hands. He is looking slyly at the other man, whi is in a white undershirt, with an unbuttoned shirt on one shoulder. This film is East German.
• Die weisse Spange
  This poster is an illustration of a man, from the shoulders up, in a black suit with a black and white striped bowtie leaning against the corner of a red brick wall. His eyes are open, but they are whites only. The suit and his body are done in a sketch style. The brick wall ends, and there is a black vertical rectangle along it. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Die widerspenstige Katharina
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a man in a black top with blue patterened sleeves and black gloves carrying a woman in a pink dress over his shoulder. Her long, curly black hair trails down after her. He is smiling. The background is white. This film is a French and Spanish coproduction.
• Wenn der Weiße Flieder wieder blüht
  This poster is an illustration of two women in green, head and shoulders only, surrounded by white flowers. There is a smiling man behind them in a dark blue suit, with his arms raised at the elbow. To the right is a black line illustration of a couple dancing, with a series of dancing girls in costumes dancing behind them . The background is white and blue. This film is West German.
• Der Weltmeister
  This poster is a colored pencil illustration of two light haired men grappling. The man in the red singlet is just about to take down the man in the blue singlet. They are on a brown mat. A young woman's head floats over them. A man stands near them, with a yellow stub in his hand, cheering them on. There is a seated audience that is subtly drawn in to the blue background, around the ring. This film is Soviet.
• Die Welt soll blühen
  This poster is an illustration of the Russian botanist Ivan Mitschurin and his wife, stangind in front of blooms of white and pink flowers. He is in a brown suit and hat; she is in a red coat with a fur color, and red hat with netting. This film is Soviet.
• Waldmärchen
  This poster is an illustration of a bears in a forest. A mother bear is on the ground, looking up at three cubs climbing on a downed tree trunk. Light is streaming through the treetops. This film is Soviet.
• Was ihr wollt
  This poster is an illustration of three characters in Shakespearean costume standing in a line on a background which is pink on the left and blue on the right. The man on the left wears a pink and red cape over a white tunic, pants, and Elizabethean collar. he has a sword at his side, and blue and yelllow knee pads. Next to him is a woman, dressed as a man, in a similar outfit, but in blue. She holds a rose in one hand, and a rolled scroll in the other. Next to her is a blond woman in a pink and yellow gown, with a trailing white cap on her head. This film is Soviet.
• Das Wunder des Malachias
  The background of this poster is a black and purple illustration of a blurry street scene. Superimposed on the image in white is a child's face. This film is West German.
• Warum lügt Mister Smith?
  This poster is an illustration of a couple. The man is holding her hand, and her head is resting on his chest. In the background is a city skyline at night, with yellow lights in the black skyscrapers. The Statue of Liberty is placed diagonally across the skyline. The original title is painted over with purple paint, and the new title painted on in yellow. This film is more commonly known as "The Russian Question", and was released in 1948.
• Das weiße Zimmer
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a large black eye on a red background. The pupil is a drawing of a young woman's face. This film is Romanian.
• Der Weihnachtsmann heisst Willi
  This poster is a painting of a thin Santa Claus, running. He is wearing blue pants, and looking over his shoulder. There are characters above and below him, inlcuding a cowboy with two guns, a wolf, a clown with a telescope, and three children. This film is East German.
• Wer erschoss Salvatore?
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a woman running towards a man holding a rifle. They are both grey. There are three graphic targets near them. At top are three green and purple mountains outlined in very thick black lines. There is a yellow sky with a large orange sun behind them. This film is Italian.
• Der wundersame Kaftan
  This poster features a green Turkish flag in the lower right hand corner of the yellow background. There is a black painting of a horse's head, laying upside down, with it's mouth open; a man's head, his arm raised with a sword horizontally over the images, and a woman's face, partially covered by the flag. This film is Hungarian.
• Wir fahren in die Stadt
  This poster is a monochromatic black and yellow photograph of Geraldine Chaplin holding the hand of a little boy. Both of them have turned to look back. There are a few cut outs of white grey, and brown clouds on the yellow background. This film is Italian.
• Wir Wunderfinder
  This poster is designed to look like a newspaper, with the title as headline and the film synopsis as copy. Five still black and white photos from the film are in the columns. Superimposed on the page are two flat red silhouettes of men hanging from strings like puppets. The fat one on the left is reaching out his hand to cut the string of the other man. This film is West German.
• Weisse Wölfe
  This poster is a color still from the film of four men on horseback, with a waterfall in the background. Three of them are dressed as Indians, with one cowboy in the back. The background of the poster is blue. This film is East German.