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One of 200 copies printed.
Extremely rare provincial film poster for Othello (1922) for the German silent film directed by later Hollywood émigré, the originally Ukrainian Dmitriy Bukhoveckiy (Dimitri Buchowetzki; 1885–1932). He emigrated from Soviet Ukraine in 1919 and worked as a director and screenwriter in Europe and USA at Paramount and MetroGoldwyn-Mayer. It was the second German Othello film adaptation. Emil Jannings, first Oscar recipient for Best actor, played the role of Othello here. The poster was published in Kozmodemyansk (the Mari El Republic in Volga region) and the film was called 'an exclusively feature film' and 'an action film', which 'took place in Venice and Cyprus Island'.

One of 5 000 copies published.Very rare. The exhibit of the Stenberg Brothers' movie posters is presented for the first time.
In 1922, Vladimir Lenin famously stated, "...you must well remember that, of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important." Following nationalization of the movie industry in 1919, the first state-owned movie company, Goskino, was established in 1922 and later renamed Sovkino in 1924. The advertising department, Reklam Film, oversaw the design, approval, and distribution of posters for both foreign and Soviet films throughout the Soviet Union. Yakov Ruklevsky, the head of Reklam Film, enlisted talented young artists such as the Stenberg brothers, Vladimir and Georgii, who created movie posters from 1923 until Georgii's untimely death in 1933. Christopher Mount noted their significance, stating that they "organized the First Exhibition of Film Posters in Moscow in 1925" (Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design. New York, MoMA, 1997). Despite this,… Read More