East German Poster Database

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• Die Nachbarin
  This poster is a mixed media illustration of a red apple on a yellow background, sitting on a green field. The apple has been bitten into on each side; each bite takes the shape of a man's profile. There remaining core is a black and white photograph of f a woman's face, framed by a fur collar. This film is Bulgarian.
• Die Novizinnen
  This poster is a drawing of a nun on a white background. The nun is wearing a traditional French white habit. Her arms are folded up, with her hands clasped directly beneath her chin. The arms, clad in the black habit, are rounded to give her the appearance of a large bosom, with her steepled hands forming open cleavage beneath the habit secured at her neck. Beneath the arms is a yellow girdle and garter belt, with patterned fish net stockings. Her black habit trails behind her. She is winking, with her red lips pursed; she wears purple eye shadow. This film is a French and Italian coproduction.
• Niemandskind
  This poster is a mixed media illustration of a black and white photograph of a young boy, with blonde hair, wearing a rough tunic that ties at the neck. Behind him is a white area of graphic, diagonal clouds on a black background. This film is Hungarian.
• Die schönen Mädchen von Florenz
  This poster is a mixed media illustration. A graphic burgundy sketch drawing of a young man is along the left side of the poster. From the top of the poster, curving down to the right side, is a line of monochromatic women's portraits. Each photo has been cut out irregularly, and is superimposed on a similarly irregular rectangular shape in pink, ochre, blue, dark pink, and green. This film is Italian.
• Der Sohn
  This poster is a large graphic illustration of a young man's face, leaning to the right. His hair is blonde, and and his face is yellow, brown, and green. The background is a street scene at night, with cars driving along underneath street lights with tall buildings on the side. This film is Soviet.
• Salto Mortale
  This poster is a monochromatic black and green illustration of a woman lion tamer and lion. She is in jodhpurs, tall boots, gloves, and low cut blouse, with a whip in her hand. The lion is raised and snarling. This film is West German.
• Schuss im Nebel
  This poster is a black background, which has been punched through, revealing the black and white photograph of a man's face. His eyes are closed. This film is Soviet.
• Schürzenjager in Not
  This poster is a black graphic illustration on a dark purple background. Seven women's heads, each with black hair, with lace in it, are group around the head of a man, in profile. Each woman has a red mouth, and there eyes and nose are various cut out shapes. There is a black rectangle beneath the man's chin, and an arm laying along the top of his head. This film is Hungarian.
• Schmuggler am Mont Blanc
  This poster is a colored pencil illustration of a young blonde woman with a rucksack, in a green parka and gloves, pulling herself up a rocky crag. There are snow covered mountains in the background, along with wisps of cloud and a dark sky. This film is West German.
• Die schwarze Akte
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a man leaning slightly over to talk to a seated woman on a green background. She has brown hair, curled, worn up in a bun; he is balding, wearing a green suit, white shirt, and black tie with tan stripes. He is holding a pencil in his left hand. She has her head tilted slightly to him. This film is French.
• Schwammsucher
  A woman in blue has her arms on the shoulders of a man in a brown and white striped tunic. They are on a cliff, with the water below them. There are three small skiffs, with numbers on the bow, tied up at the shore, and a fishing boat anchored offshore. Thre is a small white church with a bell at the top of the hill, with a low tree in front of it. This film is Soviet.
• Schlacht unterwegs
  This poster is an illustration of a large yellow circle on a red, streaky background. This film is Soviet.
• Die schwarze Galeere
  This poster is a mixed media illustration of the transom of a galleon. The illustration is a typical mechanical pen and ink technical drawing, but there is a black and white photograph of a man pinning down a screaming woman placed on the transom. A flagpole extends from the carved stern of the galleon, which has a Portugeuse standard flying from it. To the upper left is a drawing of a galleon in full sail, aground on the back of a sea creature; a mermaid with a lyre sits on top of it. There is an illustrated green and purple striped border; in each corner there is a Portugeuese heraldic device. Thi film is East German.
• Der Schutzmann
  This poster is an illustration of a man wearing a black traffic policeman's uniform. He has jodphurs, a belted leather coat, and boots. He has a gun on his belt, and a whistle on his lapel. He is holding up a red circular stop sign, and his other hand is making a stop motion. The background is yellow, with a red sketch drawing of apartment buildings with laundry lines on the left, and a cathedral dome on the right. There is an illustration of a group of men and women in the lower right hand corner; one is a priest, in a black cassock; one is in a black suit with white hair; one woman is in a red dress, and one in white. This film is Italian.
• Schwarzwaldmädel
  This poster is a colored pencil illustration of a young woman with curly brown hair dressed in Bavarian folk wedding costume. She is holding a bouquet of small wildflowers, and smiling broadly. Two men are walking towards her, one in a brown suit with an umbrella over his shoulder, the other in a red shirt, playing a lute wtih streamers on it. Both are singing. The landscape is of low mountains, green fields, a small Bavarian house, and a blue sky with yellow and pink. This film is West German.
• Sheriff Teddy
  This poster is a painting of a teenage boy in a brown suitcoat, trousers, and shirt. The shirt is blue and yellow checked, and there is a sheriff's badge pinned to his jacket. He is leaning against a wall, holding something in his hand. In the black background is a line of boys, silhouetted in yellow light from a window at the top left corner; some hold sticks or bats, all are in short pants and caps. This film is East German.
• Schwejk
  This is a classic illustration of Jaroslav Hašek's character Švejk, as drawn by Josef Lada, on a bright yellow background. Švejk wears a green pre-WWI Austrian infantry uniform, and there is stubble on his fat face. His hands are holding two white baby blankets to his chest; tucked in on the left are a man and woman with their eyes closed, fully dressed, he in uniform, she in a flowered and feathered hat; on the right is a chaplain, drunk, head thrown back, bottle in one hand, cross in the other. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Sie nannten ihn Amigo
  This poster is an illustration of the head and shoulders of a young man against a blue and grey striped background. There is a very wide black border around the entire image. The man's head is turned to the side and his skin is pink. He has on a black sweater over a pink collared shirt. His face is highlighted in white, as is his black hair and his shoulder. This film is East German.
• Seilergasse 8
  This poster is a mixed media illustration. There is a monochromatic yellow and black photograph of a man in a tweed overcoat and hat, standing in front of a wooden building. Behind him is a graphic of a black freighter ship at night. This film is East German.
• Silvesterpunsch
  This poster features a young blonde woman in a white costume, gloves, and tights, on figure skates, on a black background. She holds a glass of punch in one of her outstretched hands. There is a circle of snowflakes surrounding a compass dial beneath the title, which is festooned with confetti and streamers. There is a small man in white playing the trumpet, sitting on top of the "h" in the title. This film is East German.
• Schicksal am Lenkrad
  The top half of this poster is an image of a young man with a white cap and driving goggles on top of it; he wears a brown jacket buttoned to the top. At the bottom half are two men in the same clothing in a red convertible sports car, driving along a coastal road. There is blue sky with white clouds in the background. This film is Austrian.
• Sonnen in den Augen
  This poster consists of a red background, which has been "torn" to reveal two irregular, horizontal blue stripes, which divides the poster into thirds. Each third contains a black and whitepartial photograph of a young woman's head, from slightly different angles. This film is Italian.
• Spukschloß im Spessart
  This poster is illustrated by several images on a black background. Clockwise from top left is a white clock face, just about to reach the twelve; a blue woman in a dark blue peasant costume, holding a juge; the head and shoulders of a young woman with short brown hair, and a chartreuse polka dot shirt with a peter pan collar, looking frightened; the head and upper body of a pink skeleton, with a fleshed out face, wearing a hat with a large peacock feather. This film is West German.
• Schussfahrt nach San Remo
  The framing device of this poster resembles a yellow outline of a slice of bread on a bright blue background. Within the yellow outline is a man on a green bicycle. He wears a red unitard over a black long sleeve shirt, and a brown cap with goggles on it. Above his head is a row of flags, including the French tricolor. Behind him is a white starburst, within which one cyclist has crashed, and is being spoken to by an official; another cyclist is off his bike. There yellow outline is brown at the bottom half, with a blue sky above; along the horizon line are the faces of a man and woman; his is green. This film is a French and Italian coproduction.
• Ein Sommernachtstraum
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a woodland scene. There is a band of fairies with garlands of daisies with faces streaming off of them, and there is a large broken tree trunk which numerous characters are clustered around. Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of the fairies, are holding hands. There is a small group of fairy boys with a white horse and one has a trumpet; and there are two couples laying together in front of the log. Floating above the scene are the heads of a man and woman, with elfin features, and berries and laurel leaves on their heads. There is a red curtain at the top and left side of the poster. This film is Czechoslovakian.