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......
N.p. N.p., Circa 1966. Vintage reference photograph from the 1966 Russian film, showing actress Irma Raush. Director Andrei Tarkovsky's sprawling 15th-century drama, capturing seven episodes in the life of revered Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev, from his humble origins as a traveling monk to his later years returning to painting after a long and meditative sabbatical. Set in medieval Russia, shot on.....
London: VPS, 1972. Vintage double-weight borderless reference photograph from the 1972 film, showing actors Natalya Bondarchuk and Donatas Banionis. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, specific to the film's UK release. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on the 1961 novel by Stanislaw Lem, about a psychologist who is sent to a distant space station.....
![Road to the Stage [Cesta do mane e] (Original poster for the 1963 Armenian film). Isaakjan Levon,...](/pictures/thumb/132248.jpg?v=1638075904)
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.....
![War and Peace [Voyna i mir] (Two original photographs from the set of the 1966-1967 film series)....](/pictures/thumb/143046.jpg?v=1599279949)
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1964. Two vintage photographs from the four-fim series, released between 1966 and 1967, showing director Sergey 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 Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel, at the time the most expensive film ever made.....
![The Childhood of Maxim Gorky ]Gorkis Kindheit] (Original poster for the 1938 film). Mark Donskoj,...](/pictures/thumb/132245.jpg?v=1638075904)
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.
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.....
![The Cranes are Flying [Letyat zhuravli] (Original double weight photograph from the 1957 film)....](/pictures/thumb/142595.jpg?v=1560892554)
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 annotations regarding layout and the French title. Based on the 1956 play "Forever Alive" by Viktor Rozov, who also wrote the screenplay.....
Moscow: Mosfilm, 1966. Collection of three vintage borderless black-and-white reference photographs from the 1966 French release of the 1964 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.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, Circa 1930s. Vintage portrait photograph of Russian actor Vladimir Sokoloff, circa 1930s. Sokoloff was born in Moscow and trained at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and the Moscow Art Theatre. He emigrated to the US in the 1930s, where he found a vibrant career as a theatre and film actor in roles ranging in nationality, including.....
![Chelovek s Drugoy Storony [The Man From the Other Side] (Original treatment script for the 1972...](/pictures/thumb/140854.jpg?v=1638076166)
Moscow: Gorky Film Studio, 1969. 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 the.....