Abstract poster design for Russian 70s drama.

• title: Red Poppies from Issyk-Kulya (unofficial) | Alye maki Issyk-Kulya| Červené máky Issyk – Kulu | Soviet Union, 1972
• director: Bolotbek Shamshiyev
• with: Suymenkul Chokmorov, Sovetbek Dzhumadylov, Boris Khimichev

poster design: Zdeněk Vlach, 1978

Poster is in large A1 format (80.1 x 57 cm). Folded into quarters. Bit ran down on folds with small hole in the middle. Few tiny cracks on edges. Slight crease on edges. Some cracks in folds in bottom part. Gentle folds in corners. Few stain spots at the back. Bit of writing at the back. Very nice condition.

Movie posters in our collection were promotional materials. Posters used on display in the cinemas across the former Czechoslovakia. They bear signs of their age.

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Zdeněk Vlach is renown Czech poster designer and book illustrator. He finished two years at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague and exhibited his work since 1960s. He has created over two hundreds movie posters during his career. Zdeněk Vlach received poster award from The Hollywood Reporter Magazine for Men’s Summer in 1977 and also Gold Medal for his movie poster Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin from International Film Festival Chicago in 1982.

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