East German Poster Database

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• Anna Susanna
  This poster is composed mainly of black and white stills from the film on a light blue background with white border. There is a rough white border around each image, with a cut out photographic image from the film in each bottom corner. The blue background is part of an illustration of a clipper ship sailing on the water at night. There is a full moon visible behind breaking dark clouds. This film is East German.
• Alles spricht gegen van Rooyen
  This poster is an illustration of the upper portion of a man's face. It is in purple and black, with white highlights, on a black and grey background. The grey portion of the background opens up into netting or chain link fence, which is superimposed over a pair of female red lips. This film is English.
• Adams Rippe
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a woman in a black overcoat, with a red and green striped scarf wrapped around her head and neck. There is a white cord hanging from it. She is looking up over her shoulder. On the yellow background, in the upper left hand corner, there is a grey and black line drawing of a young girl in a double breasted coat. This film is Bulgarian.
• Abenteuer um Mitternacht
  This poster is a mixed media illustration. It features a black and white photograph of a drinking glass, tilted to the left. The background of the poster is divided in half vertically, with the top being purple and the bottom black. Where the glass crosses the black horizon line, it has been printed in red. Thre is a white handprint on the black portion of the poster, which becomes black as it crosses onto the glass and the purple portion of the poster. This film is Bulgarian.
• Alfa-Romeo und Julia
  This poster is a painted illustration of a man in a red and blue striped outfit sitting on his haunches, with his hands on the ground between his bare feet. He has short, curly black hair, and a worried look on his face. There is a black and white dog standing between his arms. Above his head is the head of a woman with black hair twisting out to the sides like periwinkles attached to the side of her head. There is a blue circle on top of her forehead, with a small black circle in the center. The background is orange. This film is Hungarian.
• Auf der Sonnenseite
  This poster is a pen, ink, and watercolor illustration on a bright yellow background. At center is a man seated on a wooden chair, playing a purple guitar. He has a striped shirt, blue trousers, oxfords, and his lips are pursed for singing. A tiny woman in a red and grey striped body suit is floating horizontally by his neck, with her hands around it. She has her lips pursed to kiss him. By the leg of the chair is a tiny man in a waistcoat, with his hands on his brown jacket, looking up a the man in the chair. There is an overly long arm holding a bottle extended from the side of the poster to underneath the chair. This film is East German.
• Die Abenteuer des Till Ulenspiegel
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a man running, arms outstretched, on a white background. He is posed on an angle, and is outlined in thick black lines. He has short black hair, and a short jacket of grey, blue, red, green and burgundy, with blue trousers. This film is an East German and French coproduction.
• Der Amphibienmensch
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a man facing downward, wearing a teal green scuba suit, fins, and goggles on a black background. There are tiny white air bubbles all around him. This film is Soviet.
• Auf Zirkusbären schießt man nicht
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a large brown bear on a white background. He is standing upright, and wears small wire frame glasses on the end of his snout. He wears a broad yellow necktie, which melds into a large red target on his chest. The target consists of concentric rings of red, pink, yellow and orange with numbers in them. This film is Soviet.
• Der Aufstand
  This poster is a black and white photograph printed in a monochromatic yellow and black of a group of men and boys in traditional Romanian peasant outfits brandishing farm implements such as scythes and pitchforks. The man at the front has three small children in front of him, and he is holding a wooden club raised in his right hand. This film is Romanian.
• Anna Karenina
  This poster is a color still from the film, featuring Tatyana Samojlova as Anna Karenina and Vasili Lanovoy as Count Vronsky, dancing in a formal white ballroom. She is in a black gown and he is in a white dress uniform gold braid and epaulets. This film is Soviet.
• Abschied
  This poster consists of five pointilist portraits across the bottom on a black background. The first three, from left to right, are of the same young man: in left profile; yawning, front view; right profile. The next portrait is red, and is of a woman with lank, shoulder length hair, in left profile; the last portrait is a man, front view, with a mustache and receding hairline. This film is East German.
• Alle Jahre wieder
  This poster is a mixed media illustration of a man's face on a royal blue background. The face is a color photograph, which has been cut out in the shape of a mask, with blank eye holes, bounded by the nose and forehead. The eyes are crinkled as though smiling. The title, in white, directly below the mask, forms a beard. There is a red graphic of a candle stub, dripping wax, which is placed at the top center of the mask, with wax dripping down toward the blank eye. There is a black and white photograph of a woman with wings and a gossamer dress, which is floating on either side above the mask. This film is West German.
• Aktion Kalimantan
  This poster is a black on blue graphic illustration of a man who is running around or sliding down a rocky cliff, as his inside hand and leg are low to the ground, with his hand clutching at the rocks as his right arm swings around. This film is a Czechoslovakian and Indonesian coproduction.
• Ali Baba
  This poster is a pencil caricature of the French comic actor Fernandel on a bright yellow background. He is dressed in a pleated tunic, belted at the waist, with a cape over his shoulders, which is secured by a button at the neck. He has on a turban, and is carrying a decorated jug in his left hand. His right hand is raised, and he is smiling. This film is French.
• Am Anfang war es Liebe
  This poster is a watercolor illustration a red rose on a white background. The green stem has two leaves, one on either side. At the top, the stem is broken, and the flower hangs downward, with petals splayed. Within the flower is a monochromatic black and red print of a a young man and woman in traditional Bulgarian folk costume sitting next to one another. This film is Bulgarian.
• Der Arzt im Moor
  This poster is an illustration of a nighttime scene. There is a man in a pink shirt and dark pants standing in the water, with his hands above his head, against a tree limb. There is moonlight shining on his right side. The landscape is black, showing low, bare trees and dark water. There is a bright yellow moon. This film is Yugoslavian.
• Aus meinem Leben (Bedřich Smetana)
  This poste is a watercolor illustration of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana and a woman in a pink and white striped dress and straw hat sitting at the water's edge by a small waterfall. There is an open parasol in front of his hand. There is yellow and green foliage around them. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Arena der Kuhnen
  This poster is an illustration of a man walking a tightrope with the faces of a circus ring peering up at him. He is wearing blue pants, shirt, and red tie, and his arms are spread wide, with four colored rings twirling on them. He wears a beanie with an umbrella on it, and has a small umbrella between his teeth. There are spotlights on him. This film is Soviet.
• Aufenthalt vor Vera Cruz
  This poster is a watercolor illustration of a young blonde woman, her head raised slightly, with a rosary around her neck. In the background is a painting of a brown skinned man, dancing, barefoot, in rough grey pants and a blue shirt with a straw hat. In the background is a pen and ink sketch of two men in typical Mexican attire playing guitars and singing at a cafe table. There is a bottle laying on teh ground. This film is a French and Mexican coproduction.
• Abseits vom Leben
  This poster is a photomontage of black and white images of the lead characters in the film, in monochromatic prints of blue, orange and pink on a yellow and black background. Thin white highlights have been drawn into the hair, mustache, and eyes of the older man in blue. This film is in Estonian with German subtitles.
• Alarm in den Bergen
  This poster is an illustration of a man and woman, all in shades of purple with yellow highlights on her face and chest. She is younger, and wears a peasant blouse pulled off her shoulders. He is older, and is at her side, with his hands grabbing both of her arms from behind. There are two pink lights in the background, which is dark purple. The pink lights reflect on her dark hair and shoulders. This film is Romanian.
• Jugendsünde
  This poster is an illustration of a woman with blonde hair worn in a bun on top of her head, naked,sitting up, holding a young man's head to her bosom. He wears a white collared shirt, and there is a white sheet covering them. The background is white with pink. This film is French.
• Die Journalisten
  This poster is a colored pencil and pastel illustration of a young woman with red hair, in profile, on a variegated blue background. She is wearing a tan coat with a purple edge along the cuffs and lapels, and a red beanie. Thre is a red, blue, and yellow striped scarf around her neck. She is holding a teal blue fountain pen raised in her right hand. This film is Soviet.
• Jenseits des Rechts
  This poster is an graphic illustration of Van Johnson and Vera Miles. He is wearing a judicial robe, and is holding a piece of paper in his hand that Vera Miles is grabbing for. The background is white, with a large image of the German symbol for a judicial paragraph in blue ben-day dots. There is a smaller version of the symbol in red dots below the title. This film is English.