East German Poster Database

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• Titanic
  This poster is a black line illustration on a dark teal green background. It depicts the black iron hull of ship. People are in the water, clinging to lifejackets. Some are in lifeboats, and others are hanging on to the lines off the side of the ship. This is a 1961 East German poster of the 1943 German film.
• Das Todesseil
  This poster is a black and white still photograph of a man embracing a young woman. Both wear winter overcoats. The background image is of a woman in a costume, kneeling on a tightrope with her arms stretched out above her. There are two beams of light, one green and one orange, which casts shadows of the rope and the rigging. This film is Italian.
• Tosca
  This poster is an illustration of a man in a black cape, tinged with purple, his back to the viewer. His head is turned to the side, and he is looking down on a woman in a purple gown, holding a purple chiffon scarf up to her mouth. She is wearing a jeweled, cuff, earrings, and tiara. This film is Italian.
• Tag des Zorns
  This poster is a charcoal drawing of five men, head and shoulders only. The man in the center is holding a rifle with both hands, while another man has hand on it. There is an illustrated red streak behind the men. This film is Soviet.
• Der Träumende Mund
  This poster is a black and white still photograph of a man in a suit seizing a woman by the shoulders. She has short curly brown hair. Behind them is an illustrated streaky area of peacock blue on the white background. This film is West German.
• Hans Röckle und der Teufel
  This poster is an illustration on fabric. It features a man with orange hair and beard in a blue suit. He is surrounded by several characters. Clockwise from lower left: a jester puppet in a red hat and yellow, red an dgreen outfit; a horse's rear end, pulling a yellow carriage with a young man and woman at the reins; a man with a white face, black hair, and small yellow horns, with a red hooded cape over his head; another puppet with a red face, yellow horns, and a red and black checked coat over a green and blue outfit. This film is East German.
• Die Hauptstrasse
  This poster is an illustration of a woman with short dark hair walking through a colonnade at night. The light makes the arches purple, and casts a black shadow on the purpel ground. She is wearing a black coat, which she is holding closed with one hand, over her red dress. She is highlighted in blue. Over her left shoulder the street is blue, the shop fronts are black, and yellow light shines from the windows. Two black figures stand in front of an awning. This film is a French and Spanish coproduction.
• Die Höhe
  This poster is an illustration of a woman, muffled in a large green coat. She wears a matching hat over her short blond hair, which she holds on to her head with her right hand. Her other hand holds the collar of the coat closed. She is standing in front of a red lighthouse or observation tower, which has a metal stairwell around the outside. The silhouettes of two mean lean against the railing at the observation level; the tower continues upward, narrower and blue. The sky is purple. This film is Soviet.
• Hochmut kommt vor dem Knall
  This poster has two black and white photographic images on it on a red background. At top is a man, reclining, reading a large floppy book. He is holding something clutched in his right hand. At the bottom of the poster is a group of people, clutching at each other in a row, all looking afraid. One of them is a gagged man in a moire pattern smoking jacket. This Film is East German.
• Das Herz spielt mit
  This poster has a background image of young women playing basketball. They are in blue and red uniforms, with Chinese writing on the front and numbers on the back. Two of them are jumping for the ball at the hoop; the backboard is a big red heart. The floor is yellow. In the right foreground, a young Chinese couple stand together; she has her hand on his chest; he has his chin resting on top of her head, and a hand over hers. She is in blue, he in a yellow turtleneck sweater under a red jacket. This film is Chinese.
• Der Hut der Wunder aus
  This poster has a beige background, with a faint overlay of light yellow. There is a colored pencil musical staff repeated on the background. In the foreground, in colored pencil, is an illustration of a child with golden curls, beating on a drum worn on a sash across his chest. He has on a straw hat, which is tipped back, and there are chunks missing from it. All around him are smaller characters playing instruments, and as as the scene travels upward, there are typical village characters, such as two men in fancy dress, a town cryer, etc. There is a treble clef in the top left of the staff, and there are two large hearts near it. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Hopfenpflücker
  This poster has a black and white photograph of a man, from the back, holding a round bodied guitar across his chest. It is repeated twice, in a smaller size, in the background. There is a graphic element of diagonally placed rectangular bars of blue, green, and red, crossing in front of a background of grey rectangular bars, which have thin black lines crossing the poster. The background is white. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Das Herz einer Frau
  This poster is a colored pencil illustration of a a woman with curly brown hair, resting the side of her face against the head of a young, black haired boy. The has on a white beaded necklace and matching earrings. The background is blue, with a white mountain top behind his shoulder. This film is Austrian.
• Heute abend geht alles zu Ende
  This poster features two cut out illustrations of a man and a woman on a black background. The man is in a loden green suit which is belted at the waist, and has two chest pockets. He holds a pistol in his right hand. The woman is in profile, in a red dress wtih cap sleeves and a peter pan collar. Both figures have yellow skin and hair. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Hinter der Maske
  This poster is entirely pink, with two areas of white forming a doctor's surgical cap and mask. His facial features and ears are a black illustration. This film is English.
• Herz ohne Liebe
  This poster is a realistic illustration of a young woman with curly blond hair in a wedding dress with a lace veil. She has a large natural pearl on a gold chain around her neck. Over her left shoulder, an older man in a suit leans against a table, with his hands clutched around a grey kitten with a pink bow. This film is Soviet.
• Hexen
  This poster has a yellow background with illustrated pine tress and small white houses with red roofs scattered about. The "X" in the title is very large, and connects to four circles in each quadrant of the poster. Each circle contains a black and white photograph of someone's head, from top left: in a black circle, an old woman with unkempt white hair, hands held out in front of her; in a green circle, a smiling boy; in a blue circle, a smiling man in uniform; in a red circle, a smiling woman. This film is East German.
• Herz der Welt
  This ppster is an illustrated portrait of a young woman. She is smiling, with tight blond curls. She wears a dark dress with puffy shoulders and a white bib that becomes a stiff upright collar. There is a beaded brooch at the neck that is a flower. She wears a cross on a chain that hits right at her cleavage. The background oval is jagged, and is black with streaks of dark red. This film is West German.
• Heute heiratet mein Mann
  This poster is a profile illustration of a man's head, wearing a black top hat. He is smiling. A woman in a wedding dress and trailing veil is laying on her stomach on the brim, with her leg kicked up. She holds a red flower in her hands. The background is pink. This film is West German.
• Heiraten-aber wen?
  This poster features caricatures of a maid and a businessman, both with oversized heads. She is wearing a short black maid's uniform with white bib, a red beaded necklace, blue bowed shoes, and is holding a feather duster. He is a black and blue pinstripe suit, with a red polka dot bow tie. Between them, on the floor, is a framed portrait of a young woman. The glass is broken. The background is light blue. This is a 1953 poster of a 1937 Czechoslovakian film.
• Der Hofnarr
  This poster is an illustration of a man with shaggy, curly hair and a unruly goatee leaning over a young woman who is laid out with her eyes closed. Her long hair trails down around her face, and her clothing is decorated. The figures are in light blue, green, and grey on a mostly black background. This film is Italian.
• Der Haupttreffer
  This poster is an illustration of a man, who is all pink, except for a yellow shirt under his hacket, and the yellow highlights on his glasses. He is holding a ticket in his hand, the rest of which are flying upward, toward a woman in a wedding dress, who is smilind and holding a ticket aloft while driving a yellow and white car with tail fins. The background is royal blue. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Hallo, falsch verbinden!
  This posters an illustration of a man leaning against a wall, knees up to his chest, holding a telephone receiver in front of his face. He is smiling while dialing the rotary dial. He is wearing a white button down and grey trousers. The phone cord curls upwards and is connected to two other telephone receivers, each held by a different woman within a red or yellow circle with cross hatching. This film is Romanian.
• Die Hofnarrenchronik
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a man and woman riding on a prancing white carousel horse. She is riding side sadle, and her dress is red and blue. He is wearing a uniform, and holds a saber raised in his right hand. The horse is on a pole, with a white pennant at the top; the pennant has a black woodcut illustration of a battle on it. The background is black. This film is Czechoslovakian.
• Hilfe, ich bin unsichtbar!
  This poster is a graphic illustration of a man's head, in profile. It is a white cut out, with a few thick black lines representing a receding hairline. Thre is a green hat with a white band floating above his head, and a teapot made of white polka dots on the pink background that circles of black steam are coming from. He has a very long, hooked nose, which is directly positioned above a green bottle. The bottle has a man in a hat on a white label, and another label with three pink stars on it. There are numerous white lines below the man's head, where his neck should be. This film is West German.