East German Poster Database

Items

• Unternehmen Capricorn
  This poster is a charcoal drawing of a goat's skull. There is a metal plaque fixed to the skull which says "ONE." The snout and left eye have flesh and fur and intact eyeball. The skull is floating on a grey background, with little rocks that look like asteroids. This film is American.
• Unvollendetes Stück für ein mechanisches Klavier
  This poster is a watercolor of a man and a woman, standing side by side. He wears a white coat and straw boater, and has a beard. She wears a long black skirt and green jacket, with black hair. There are black ink splotches across the image, which is on a tan background. This film is Soviet.
• …Und Ringsum streifen Wölfe
  This poster is an illustration of a hand holding a gun, barrel pointed at the viewer. It is surrounded by a landscape of red roofed farm houses in low rolling hills, with a blue mountain in the background. This film is Soviet.
• Die unglaubwürdigen Abenteuer der Italiener in Rußland
  This poster is an illustration of the top half of a matryoshka doll, who is winking. Four legs and a crutch are coming out of top half. One is a man's leg; one is a leg in a cast; one is a woman's leg in a red boot; one is an animal paw. The background is green. This film is a Soviet and Italian co-production.
• Die Unsterblichen
  This poster is an illustration of an early battle. It depicts a group of men on horseback, charging, weapons drawn. A few men are on the ground, and there is a large covered wagon with a cross on it. Above the wagon is a large yellow explosion with a cloud of white smoke around it. Pieces of wagon are flying through the air. The background of the poster is black. This film is Romanian.
• Unser Tägliche Brot
  This poster is a black and white photomontage of a young man driving an early tractor. A loaf of brown bread replaces the body of the vehicle. This film is East German. The poster is highly acidic, with visible acid burn.
• Der Untergang der Emma
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a young man and woman, standing side by side, at a ship's wheel. There is a blue sky behind them with white clouds. The background of the poster is orange. This film is East German. There is visible acid burn on the poster.
• Der Ungehorsam
  This poster is a color photographic still of a woman in a negligee, standing next to a seated young man. She has his arm across his back, and his head is against her hip, eyes closed. There is an open window and bookshelves in the background. This film is an Italian and French co-production.
• Der Unsichtbare Mensch
  This poster is a line drawing of a man in a three piece suit, from the shoulders up. In place of his head, there is a radiating n which is a starburst. Within which is a yellow starburst, within which is a green triangle with letters and numbers on and around it. There is a white and black circle in the center of the triangle. The background is blue. This film is Soviet.
• Umsturz nach Plan 107
  This poster is an illustration of two soldiers, made out of camouflage, in profile. They are crouched down; one wears a helmet, the other a beret. The image is on a white background. This film is Soviet.
• Unterwegs nach Atlantis
  This poster is a surrealistic illustration of a man in a suit and pith helmet. There is a flat blue sea behind him. Instead of his face, the image of the sea continues through him, with a Corinthian column rising up out of the water into the middle of his face. This film is East German.
• Über die Grenzen
  This poster is an illustration of a group of cyclists racing down a hill. There is a rainbow streak coming from the back wheel of the second cyclist. Above the cyclists are two men, one of them filming with a large movie camera. The background is blue; the cyclists have a white rectangular line at the corners, as though in a viewfinder. This film is East German.
• Der Übergang
  This poster is an illustration of two men standing side by side, viewed from the shoulders up. They are in greens, yellows, and reds. In the background is a rocky mountain pass, with steep rock walls on either side. The sky is blue, yellow, and red. This film is East German.
• Das Urteil
  This poster is a color photograph of a Soviet peaked cap. It is olive wool with a red star with a hammer and sickle on it. It sits atop a box made of two photographic sides, which sit at right angles. The side on the right is the left side of a man's face. The left side is a of a double "S" printed on a card. The image is on a black background. This film is Yugoslavian.
• Ungleiches Duell
  This poster is an illustration of the body of a man, in profile. One hand is at the side, the other holds a gun. Midway through the torso, the body is flat, and there is twisted steel rebar coming from it, making the man's body seem like a statue. There are pock marks, like bullet holes, in the body. The image is on a white background with a blue and purple wash at the top. This film is French. There is visible foxing.
• Überfall im Morgengrauen
  This poster is an illustration of a chalk body outline on a cracked ceramic tile floor. The head points to the bottom of the poster. There are chalk arrows with circles pointing to two different areas of the body. The poster has a black background. This film is French.
• Unter Geiern
  This poster has an illustration of the silhouette of an American Indian in the foreground. He is seen from behind, with a feather sticking up from the back of his headband; he is crouched down, and looking at two cowboys, riding across low hills and a setting sun. The background of the poster is bright yellow and bright orange. This film is a West German, French, and Yugoslavian co-production.
• Der Unverbesserliche
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a man in a top hat and tails. He has his arm raised, and holds a sheaf of paper bills in his gloved right hand. The background of the poster is pink. This film is French.
• Die unverbesserliche Barbara
  This poster utilizes red Benday dots on an orange background to depict the face of a woman. This film is East German.
• Die Farbe Lila
  This poster is silhouette of a woman's profile, from the neck up. Her lips are pursed. There is a white cut out for the eye. The image is on a black background. This film is American. This poster is on heavy card stock, and has been crushed along the right edge. There is water damage in the bottom left hand corner.
• Die Farbe Lila
  This poster is silhouette of a woman's profile, from the neck up. Her lips are pursed, and red. There is a white cut out for the eye, and the image begins to break up at the back of the head. It is on a white background. This film is American.
• Eine Falle für Schakale
  This poster is a monochromatic yellow and grey photographic print of a rock face with boulders in front of it. There is a graphic illustration of a large bladed knife; the handle is indented to form the profile of a man. Where his eye would be there is an image of a brooch, which has a large red stone at the center. This film is Soviet.
• Eine Frau
  This poster is an illustration of the profile of a woman in red. She has Asian features, with long black hair. Her hair forms the outline of the breasts and belly of a woman kneeling, which is then outlined in red. There is a Chinese knot near her pubis. This film is Mongolian.
• Ein Flügelschlag Liebe
  This poster is a pen and ink drawing of three green eyes. In the first one, there is a bit of white rectangle near the pupil, which grows larger in the second, and in the third is an "X" across the pupil and iris. The background is a blue and pink watercolor wash. This film is Japanese.
• Die Feuerjäger
  This poster is an illustration of a man running away from stacks of burning tires on either side, into a white opening. He carries a flash camera or some other device in his right hand, and he looks to the left as he steps out. The background is black. This film is English.