East German Poster Database

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• Flegelalter
  This poster is an illustrated caricature of the French actors Fernandel and Jean Gabin. Each has the body of a rooster, and a cock's comb on their heads. Their bodies incorporate several faces, and each bird is extending an arm and shaking the other's hand. The background is ochre. This film is French.
• Der Fischer von Louisiana
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a two masted sailing ship, which is made to look like a collage. The hulls is white with a prow and large rudder. There are orange portholes along the sides . The sails are white, and there is the orange face of a man on one and a woman on the other. The title of the film has been incorporated into the design to look like a wave the ship is riding upon. The background is dark purple, with an orange sun and white cloud. This film is American.
• Freispruch mangels Beweises
  This poster is a collage of cut out newspaper headlines, advertisements, and black and white photographs on a black background. This film is East German.
• Der Postmeister
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a large old man with a mustache, wearing a cap. He is in blue with orange highlights. Behind him is a man in a military dress uniform (Hussar), with his arms around the shoulders of a young woman. She is looking up and back at him. She is in a white dress with a wide blue belt under the bodice. There are pink highlights on both of them. This film was a 1940 Austrian production under the aegis of the Third Reich.
• Paris im Monat August
  This poster is a light orange colorized black and white photograph of a man's head. There is a graphic of a yellow, and black butterfly hovering over his face. This film is French.
• Professor Hannibal
  This poster has a black and white photograph of a man's head. He wears small wire rim glasses, a small mustache, and is balding. His photograph is superimposed over a very light monochromatic peach photograph of a man in Roman warrior dress of the 3rd century B.C. This film is Hungarian.
• Die Prüfung
  This poster is an illustration of a man, as viewed from the back. He is wearing a black suit and white shirt, has disheveled black hair, and his hands are clenched into fists. There are two wide white arrows coming from either side of the poster, pointing at his head. There is the face of an old man in each one; the one on the left is wearing a pince-nez; the one on the right a string tie. The background is red. This film is French.
• Prinzess Mary
  This poster is an illustration of a young woman with brown corkscrew curls in a large white bonnet. She floats in the sky over the scene below, which is of a man in a military uniform, standing on a promontory, with a pistol in his hand. Further back are three men. One is in a brown frock coat and black top hat; one is a fat man in a military uniform; one is in a military uniform and is pointing a pistol at the man on the promontory. White capped mountains are visible in the background. This film is Soviet.
• Papa Mama Meine Frau und Ich
  This poster is an illustration of four adults and three children. The man, in white pajamas with yellow stars, is climbing a red rope ladder with a howling baby over his shoulder and one under his arm. The ladder is going through a hole in the blue silhouette of a house. A small boy with a ball is on the roof. A woman in a red and white striped dress is running towards the ladder, with her arms spread out. Behind her is a somber woman in a black dress. On the right of the poster is a balding man in a black suit, a child bent over his knee; his arm is raised for a spanking. The background is yellow orange. This film is French.
• Papa Mama Katrin und Ich
  This poster is an illustration of four characters on a small yellow stage with a yellow curtain. A comely young woman in white with an apron tied around her waist steps up a small ladder, and with her feather duster dusts a bust held up by a man in a black lawyer's robe with lace collar. To his right is a woman in a long, red gown, arm raised, with a book in her left hand. On the far right of the poster is a balding man in a suit with a fish over his shoulder. The background is royal blue. This film is French.
• Paloma
  This poster is an illustration of a man and woman, from the shoulders up, on a grey blue background. The woman's skin is orange, and her black her is pulled back with a yellow fastener. The man wears a blue shirt, has a mustache, and a wide straw hat. He is looking at her. This film is Mexican.
• Mandarin
  This poster is of the shape of a man holding two swords on a raspberry background. Both of his legs are kicked up in the air behind him; one sword is out in front of his body, and another is above his head. His body is composed of shapes with black and white photographs or illustrations of people. Some are of men on horseback, two are of women, some are of men in a group with weapons. The head is simply the head of a smiling man, cut out from a magazine. This film is a French and Italian coproduction.
• Mord ohne Sühne
  This poster is a white line illustration of justice. She wears a blindfold, and the scales are tipped to her left. She holds a long sword in her right hand. On the left is a sketch of a man's face, behind prison bars. His hand is wrapped around the bars. The background is dark teal. This film is East German.
• Othello
  This poster is an illustration of Othello, wearing a long, red cape, which he has wrapped around his blonde wife. She is looking up at him. Her cream tunic drapes to the bottom of the poster and blends into a horizontal color bar. The rest of the background is white. This film is Soviet.
• Oh diese Untermieter
  This poster is an illustration of an embracing couple standing in front of a grey stairwell with a black railing. She wears a purple dress; he black pants and a blue vest. There are four people on the stairs, all looking at the couple or yelling at them. At the landing is a little boy in a white night shirt holding a trumpet. The background is yellow. This film is Hungarian. The top half of the poster is torn in two.
• Oberarzt Dr. Solm
  This poster features a black and white photograph of Hans Söhnker and Antje Wesibgerber on a yellow background. There is a light green triangle superimposed on the title at the top of the poster. This film is West German. The show times of the film have been painted directly onto the poster.
• Der Onkel aus Amerika
  This poster features a graphic illustration of a large purple and blue balloon, shaped like a man. He wears a blue hat, a collar, and a yellow necktie with a roping cowboy on it. He is smoking a pipe, and a ten dollar coin is dropping from his hand. The balloon is on a black string, which is held by a man in a tux, who is walking with a bride and groom and two male attendants. The background is white, with some yellow accents around the edges. This film is East German.
• Polterabend
  This poster features an illustration of an orange and yellow female genie, or ghost, holding a stack of white plates. The plates are falling, and smashing on the ground. There is a couple in blue, with orange skin, standing by the broken plates. It is a German custom to break porcelain on the eve of a wedding. The background is black. This poster is for a 1940 German film.
• Prinz Bajaja
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a man on horseback. He is wearing armor, and the horse wears a red decorated cloth over it. The knight has his sword raised at a blue, three headed, fire breathing dragon. In the background is a blue silhouette of a castle. The poster is a bright orange yellow. This film is Czechoslovakian. One section of the poster is almost completely separated from the rest.
• Die Puppe
  This poster is an impressionistic painting of a young woman with dark hair, pulled back in a ponytail. She wears a frilly, light blue dress with pink flowers, with a tight bodice and full cleavage. She holds a white fan in front of her. Behind her is a blurry man in a top hat and tails. This film is Polish.
• Pension Boulanka
  In this watercolor illustration, there is a man slumped back in a wooden armchair, a noose around his neck. Above him is a black question mark, with an eye instead of a point. Standing in front of him is a redheaded woman in a black and red teddy with black tassel fringe, fishnet stockings, and high heels. Next to her is a clown playing the violin. He has on clown makeup, and wears a grey suit, red pants, and a red scarf, with a large red ring on his hand. The background is yellow orange. This film is East German.
• Die Prinzessin
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a woman's face; she has one hand to her head. It is solid green on a black background; details are formed by a decreasing concentration of the amount of green, so that the image appears to be breaking up. This film is Swedish.
• Prüfung auf Leben und Tod
  This poster is a graphic of two men in military uniforms running with automatic rifles. They are in ochre with dark shading on a white background. This film is Soviet.
• Polizeiaktion Nektar
  This poster is an illustration of a woman, suggested by the accessories and hair forming her shape. She wears a black hat with a wide brim, and there are a few black sketch lines for her long wavy hair. She wears an elaborate necklace with blue circles, with a very large blue circle at the center. From it hangs three smaller ovals, two yellow, one in the center with the "Progress" logo, and a large yellow oval at the bottom. On either side of the necklace at the bottom of the poster are two ovals, each with a black and white photograph of a man. The background is a variegated leaf green. This film is Polish.
• Postlagernd
  This poster is an illustration of a man and woman seated on a black table. He is wearing a black suit, she is wearing a low cut white dress, and is seated on his lap. In front of the table is a large yellow rectangle with a red heart in the center. Off to the right is a young blond man in a yellow shirt, holding a white envelope with a red heart in the center. The background is red. This film is Romanian.