Optimistic Tragedy War Revolution Film
Original vintage Soviet movie poster for an award winning blockbuster Civil War film - Optimistic Tragedy / Оптимистическая трагедия / Optimisticheskaya tragediya - based on a play by Vsevolod Vishnevsky and directed by Samson Samsonov, set during the 1917 Russian Revolution about an anarchist leader Vozhak (played by Boris Andreyev) from the Marine squad and a Bolshevik Commissar (played by Margarita Volodina). Great design featuring a black and white image of the commissar looking out to the viewer with a red shaded image of large guns and armed soldiers in the background, one holding a flag billowing in the wind, and the stylised title text below. This film was a success in the Soviet Union with 46 million tickets sold; it won the Best Evocation of a World-Shattering Epic award at the Cannes Film Festival and Boris Andreyev won the Best Supporting Actor Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Horizontal. Good condition, folds, light stains, pinholes.
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