GDR movie posters
Some days ago I found these movie posters from the 1980s on ebay. The cinemas in the GDR used to show old children’s movies or fairy tale movies all the time and probably these posters were designed for this purpose and not for the film premiere.
“Das kalte Herz“/The cold heart was one of the first fairy tale movies produced in the GDR by the film studio DEFA and it’s one of my favorites. I really like this poster too and the way it merges photography, type and these little tree icons. Even today it looks modern and cold.
“Max und die 7 1/2 Jungen“/Max and the 7 1/2 boys is a film i have never seen. When I first read the poster text I thought it’s one of these socialist children’s movies about discipline, antifascism and brigades. But I read somewhere else that it is an amusing roadmovie. Maybe one day I get to watch it. I chose this poster because it’s using the standard GDR school font for the copy text.
“Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot“
/Snow-White and Rose-Red form 1979 is a wonderful and charming fairy tale movie with German and Czech actors. But the poster doesn’t quite get the movie’s atmosphere in my opinion.
“Ein Sonntagskind das manchmal spinnt“ /A Sunday Child&rdquo, I can’t remember if I watched this movie but it seems a little familiar to me. The poster title “A DEFA-film by the group Red Circle” made me a little suspicious but I guess names like these were common at that time.
Thursday, February 11th, 2010dieser Artikel auf deutsch
