Ragazzo la tua pelle scotta [The Learning Tree]

Rome: Warner Brothers, 1970. Vintage Italian 4-Fogli poster for the 1969 film designed by Italian poster artist Manfredo Acerbo.

Based on director and screenwriter Gordon Parks' semi-autobiographical 1963 novel. The first major studio production directed by an African American, and one of few dramas of the period to focus exclusively on Black life in America, depicting the life of a teenager in late 1920s Kansas who grows up quickly as he experiences events related to racial and economic injustice in his community.

Set and shot on location in Kansas.

55 x 78 inches. Printed in two panels and folded as issued. Near Fine, with modest toning and starting to some of the folds.

[Book #170874]