Moscow: Mosfilm, 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the French release of the 1966 film. With the archival stamp of the noted cinema historian Maurice Bessy on the verso of each photo. A stunning set of battle scene photos, including one three-part panoramic shot, demonstrating the massive scale of the film, shot on location in Dorogobuzh...
![The Childhood of Maxim Gorky ]Gorkis Kindheit] (Original poster for the 1938 film). Mark Donskoj,...](/pictures/thumb/132245.jpg?v=1434404463)
Germany: P. R. Wilk, Ffm. Circa 1971. Original German A1 re-release poster, circa 1971, for the 1938 Russian film. Artwork by Lenicka. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. 23.25 x 33 inches, rolled. Near Fine.
![S.M. [Sergei] Eisenstein: Complete Works (120 slides from films). Sergei Eisenstein](/pictures/thumb/123356.jpg?v=1488554630)
New York: L'Avant Scene Cinema / Grove Press, 1969. First American Edition, a collection of 120 35mm slides featuring images from Eisenstein's films, including 12 slides from his incomplete, lost 1937 film "Bezhin Meadow." Issued as part of a series by "L'Avant Scene Cinema" magazine and distributed by Grove Press in the United States. Slides Near Fine. Housed in Very...
Russia: Mezhrabpom-Rus, 1927. Vintage German program for the 1926 Russian silent film. Photo-illustrated throughout. The only cinema paper dating from the decade of release we have encountered for the film. Based on the 1906 novel by Maxim Gorky, about a woman's struggle to free her son from a Czarist prison camp during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The first film...
![Road to the Stage [Cesta do mane e] (Original poster for the 1963 Armenian film). Isaakjan Levon,...](/pictures/thumb/132248.jpg?v=1434404463)
Poland: N.p., Circa 1966. Original Polish A1 poster, circa 1966, for the 1963 Russian film. From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Full provenance available. A story set (and shot) in Armenia, about a young circus artist who goes on to be a star. The circus troupe of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic took part in the shoot...
![The Cranes are Flying [Letyat zhuravli] (Original double weight photograph from the 1957 film)....](/pictures/thumb/142595.jpg?v=1547499580)
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1957. Vintage oversize, double weight photograph from the 1957 film. From the archives of French weekly "Tele Magazine," with two stamps on the verso, one referencing its inclusion in issue 52, page 5, along with holograph notations regarding layout and the French title. Based on the 1956 play "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov, who also wrote the screenplay...
Moscow: Creative Unit of Writers, 1972. Original Russian poster for the seminal 1972 science fiction film. This is the export variant, with text in English. Often cited as one of the most important films in the history of cinematography, "Solaris" is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The scientific mission has...
Moscow: Creative Unit of Writers, 1972. Set of 16 vintage oversize black-and-white still photographs from the Russian release of the 1972 Russian film. On the verso of each photograph is a label for a European distributor. Often cited as one of the most important films in the history of cinematography, "Solaris" is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a....
![Nostalgia [Nostalghia] (Original photograph from the set of the 1975 film). Andrei Tarkovsky,...](/pictures/thumb/140938.jpg?v=1492980641)
Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1983. Vintage borderless photograph from the set of the 1983 film, showing director Andrei Tarkovsky striking a contemplative pose while behind the camera. With a holograph ink notation on the verso identifying the film. The only vintage photograph of the great director at work on location we have handled. Nominated for the Palme d'Or and Best Director...
![Nostalgia [Nostalghia] (Original photograph from the set of the 1983 film). Andrei Tarkovsky,...](/pictures/thumb/144461.jpg?v=1544116771)
Soviet Union: Mosfilm, 1983. Vintage photograph of director Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of the 1983 film. Typescript snipe and holograph notations on the verso. The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Jankovsky) and his interpreter Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano) journey to Italy to research a forgotten 18th-century composer. Winner of three prizes at The Cannes Film Festival, including Best Director, and...
![War and Peace [Voyna i mir] (Two original photographs from the set of the 1966-1967 film series)....](/pictures/thumb/143046.jpg?v=1559338801)
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1964. Two vintage photographs from the four-film series, released between 1966 and 1967, showing director Bondarchuk on a large outdoor battle set. With Italian mimeo snipes, and stamps of a magazine archive dated August 19, 1964 on the verso. An epic production, based on the 1869 novel by Tolstoy, at the time the most expensive film ever made...
Moscow: Gorky Film Studio, 1969. Original Treatment script for the 1972 film. A collaboration between Moscow's Gorky Studio and Stockholm's Omega Film. An English translation, produced for consideration by English-speaking parties involved in production. After the October Revolution of 1917, a Russian engineer is assigned to purchase locomotives from Sweden. He is to purchase them with gold claimed by opponents of...