East German Poster Database

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• Ein Pferd für Igor
  This poster is a painting of a young boy on a brown horse with a white blaze jumping over a red and white steeplechase gate with a green bush in front of it. The boy is wearing a white shirt with two black stars on the side, black pants, and red cap, with a blue backpack on his back. The background is tan, and brown flecks of dirt come up from the horse's hooves. This film is Soviet.
• Eine Pyramid für Mich
  This poster is composed of ascending brown and white photographs of men's heads on a grey background. The bottom head is cut off at the hairline; the next two images are a slice from the area of his eyes; the next images, of the same size are of a man who wears large glasses. The top image reveals most of the second man's face. This film is East German.
• Osceola
  This poster is a mixed media illustration, featuring a black and white profile image of a man dressed as an American Indian on top of a mustang. He has a scarf tied around his head. There is a graphic illustration of a red, yellow and orange sun surrounding them. There are some random black lines and splotches at the bottom of the poster. This film is East German.
• Paris Blues
  This poster is a photomontage on a grey background. It consists of a colorized large, French, pleated tricolor decoration, which is blue, white, and then red at the center, with a black image of the Eiffel Tower superimposed over the bottom edge of it. This film is American.
• Peter und der Wolf
  This poster is a graphic illustration designed to look like torn paper shapes. At the fore is a pink wolf, in profile, with bared white teeth and a purple eye. In the middle is the head of a young boy with purple hair; above him is a man with a sharp goatee, green hat, and purple mustache; above him is a yellow butterfly with pink and white spots on its wings. The background consists of a blue tree shape on the left, and blue and green tree shape on the right, and areas of purple, orange, and green. This film is East German.
• Die Pfeile des Robin Hood
  This poster is a colorized photograph of a man on a brown horse. The man has bushy brown hair, and a brown vest over a white shirt. There is a dagger at hisleft side,arrow quills on his left, and a staff across his back. There are yellow rays coming off the man and horse, which is surrounded by a red circle with a black border on each side. The background is blue at the top and green at the bottom. This film is Soviet.
• Die Piraten des Pazifik
  This poster is a mixed media illustration of the bow of a schooner, with full sails, heading into blue and green waves, with white coming off the ship. There is a small Union Jack at the top of the foremast. There is a border of heavy rope, with a yellow red, black, and white compass rose in each corner. The sky is brown and tan. This film is Romanian.
• Ein pikantes Geschenk
  This poster is a colored pencil illustration of a large, cream colored, upright egg with breasts and a pink ribbon tied around the base. The top of the egg has cracked open and there is a large quantity of short pinkish-red feathers coming out of it. The background is light beige. This film is a French and Italian coproduction.
• Die parallele Leiche
  This poster is a blue and white photograph of two human forms beneath a dark sheet. One form is head up, the other is head down. There is a white border around the poster. This film is Danish.
• Paradies auf Zeit
  This poster is a graphic grey and white illustration of a couple walking on a cobblestone street with a staircase behind them. He wears a trench coat, suit and hat, and carries a leather suitcase. He has his hand on her back. She wears a dark skirt and short white jacket buttoned at the waist, with a trench coat over her right arm; she holds a satchel in her left. The poster is designed to look like the photograph was taken through a rain streaked window or lens. This film is Hungarian.
• Plattfuβ am Nil
  This poster is a graphic illustration of the Sphinx on a yellow background. The sphinx's paws are crossed, and there is a knotted rope around them. The sphinx has a black eye. This film is Italian.
• Privatleben
  This poster is a graphic black and white illustration of an old man in black and a black homburg on a white background. A simple line suggests he is angry and has a mustache. The dip in his homburg forms the chin of a repeat of his head, in smaller form; the dip in the second head's homburg forms the chin of a third, smaller repetition of his head. This film is Soviet.
• Provinz Roman
  This poster is a black and white photograph of a long, white wedding veil on the ground, just within the opening of a heavy wooden door that is slightly ajar, trailing across the threshold and into the hallway. This film is Soviet.
• Die Phantome des Hutmachers
  This poster is a black and white photographic close-up of a man's face on a black background. The left side of the face is printed in light blue. The face is split in two by a thick red line that follows the shape of the man's face, and repeats the photographic image from below the nose to the chin. This film is French.
• Phaeton on Erde…
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a dark blue space suit against a dark blue and white sky filled with stars. Within the clear domed helmet is the earth rather than a head. This film is Soviet.
• Pferdelady
  This poster is an illustration of a horse's body with a woman's torso and head. The horse is brown with white stockings; the front legs are rearing. The woman's arms are behind her; she wears a blue denim shirt, and a brown cowboy hat pushed down over her face and long brown hair. the background is a grey wash on white. This film is Canadian.
• Der Pferdehirt
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a man with short, curly black hair standing in 3/4 profile against a blue sky with low pink hills and a brownish green ground. He wears blue trousers and a matching blue jacket with a red mandarin collar. The jacket is open, with a white collarless shirt under it. He wears knee-high, tan boots. One hand is over his shoulder, holding a tan blanket or coat with two black stripes, on thick and one thin, along the bottom. There is also a brown belt hanging from underneath it. His other hand is clenched. This film is Chinese.
• The Purple Rose of Cairo
  At the bottom center of this poster is a drawing of a woman standing in the middle of a black circle on a white background. She wears a belted trench coat, hat, and oxfords, and his her arms raised up, gesturing to a large purple and green shaded orb above her. There is a suitcase at her feet. within the orb is a portrait of a man in a pith helmet, about to kiss the upturned face of a blond woman, also in a pith helmet, whose hand is stroking his face. There are several smaller, similarly shaded orbs overlapping and surrounding the portrait orb. This film is American.
• Pizza Connection
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a gold armchair with a pink cushioned seat and back sitting in the middle of an Italian town square, as viewed through an archway. There is a wrapped package underneath the chair with a cord leading from it to an detonator. The buildings are low and beige, with rectangular and arched windows. The courtyard is grey tile. The sky in the background is blue with a red sunset. This film is Italian.
• Plaff
  This poster is a graphic illustration of an angular black head in profile on a white background. The top of the head is erupting in a yellow and orange cloud. There are thick, curving lines in various colors of blue, green, and red coming from three sides of the poster towards the head, which end in triangular points. There are random dots of green, red, and blue around the poster. This film is Cuban.
• Das Pferdemädchen
  This poster is a comical drawing of a young blond girl seated on a white horse with grey spots and a sparse mane and raised plume tail. The horse has its head turned around to pluck a sugar cube from the girl's open hand. There is a tiny, rearing, brown horse with a red collar with a brass bell on the ground between the white horse's feet. There is a green topiary bush with pink flowers on either side of the horse. The grass is green with yellow flowers, on a white background with a wavy blue stripe at the top. The horse wears a red blanket with a white border; the girl has on a red turtleneck and blue jeans. This film is East German.
• Persönliche Sicherheit garantiere ich nicht
  This poster is a graphic illustration of the upside down silhouette of a man with a rifle on his back. The entire graphic looks like it has been airbrushed. There are several small house-shaped objects on his body outlined in white with white roofs. One of the houses is outside his body on the white background of the poster. There is a large red dotted line from the lower right hand side of the poster, which ends with an arrow within the figure. At the top of the poster, the man's feet disappear into the landscape, composed of an irregular grey bar, and an irregular maroon bar with white cloud shapes in it. This film is Soviet.
• Pechvögel
  This poster features four graphic illustration caricatures of the films lead actors, including Donald Sutherland and Sean Penn, on a white background. There faces are different colors. They are in a row, ascending in height. Five arms are extended; three hold a fork in their outstretched; one of them has a fish on it. Two of the hands are holding a church key. This film is American.
• Die Polizistin
  This poster is a color still close-up of the Miou-Miou, wearing her hair pulled back, with straight bangs, and a blue coat with the collar turned up. This film is French.
• Panik im Tokio-Express
  The background of this poster is light pink. There is a black graphic illustration of a man's hand holding a telephone receiver upright. There is a small loop with a trigger beneath the receiver, which his index finger is depressing. The image looks like a stencil that has been airbrushed. This film is Japanese.