SEP (USSR, Russia) 1929 directed by Mikhail Verner
These extraordinary avant-garde movie posters are from the pre-Stalin days of the Soviet Union before Soviet Realism took a hold on graphic design. The period of artistic freedom in the Communist Soviet Union was relatively brief but some of these posters are amongst the greatest ever created.
The Love Triangle (Russia) directed by Abram Room and starring Ludmila Semyonova, Nikolai Batalov and Vladimir Fogel, 1927
Sporting Fever, USSR (Belorussia) 1928 directed by Alfred Dobbelt and Boris Nikoforov, starring Boris Nikoforov
The Eleven Devils (Die elf Teufel) Germany 1927 directed by Zoltan Korda and Carl Boese starring Gustav Fröhlich
The Annenkov Affair (USSR, Russia) 1933 directed by Nikolai Beresnev
Saba (USSR, Georgia) 1929 directed by Mikhail Chiaureli starring Sandro Dzhaliashvili, Veriko Andzhaparidze and Eka Chavchavadze
Moulin Rouge (UK) 1928 directed by D.A. Dupont and staring Olga Chekhov’s, Eve Gray, Jean Bradin
Mertvaya Petlya, 1929
John’s Skirts (originally called ‘Singer- Jim McKee’) USA, 1924 directed by Clifford S. Smith starring William S. Hart
The Happy Canary (Vesolaya Kanareika), directed by Lev Kuleshov 1929
Pyat Minut, USSR, Georgia 1928
The Doll with Millions, Kukla S Millionami (USSR, Russia) 1929
Sparkakiada (USSR, Russia) 1927
A Real Gentleman, (USA) 1928 Direced by Clyde Bruckman
Pyshka – (Russia) directed by Mikhail Romm and starring Galina Sergeyva, Anatoly Goryunov and Andrei Fait
These posters, many of them from the private collection of Susan Pack, can be found in Taschen’s Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde by Susan Pack.
Susan Pack graduated from Princeton in 1973. For 10 years she worked in advertising, latterly as senior copywriter at Saatchi & Saatchi in New York. She began collecting rare advertising posters in the 1970s, in due course acquiring one of the world’s foremost collections of avant-garde Russian film posters.
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