Movie poster shown on the picture above has been seen previously in one of our articles on History of Poster Design in Czechoslovakia. It did not stop us from refreshing the memory as we are strongly effected by its expressiveness. Jean Gabin‘s common impression for every French born was broken into uncertainty. Divided into parallel fields as in the rhythm similar to main theme of that phenomenal soundtrack composed by Serge Gainsbourg. Music moves on as we can see even on the letters, one can hear the most peculiar sounds.
Mysterious poster for Georges Lautner‘s film is hiding one extra mystery and that is the poster designer himself. Jaromír Bradáč remains the one, or at least for now. You can count number of his film posters on your left hand and that’s about everything we could track on this fantastic graphic designer. Hopefully the future will show some more light about him, as we believe five film posters is not everything he did.
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A Study About Women, film poster by Jaromír Bradáč, 1968.
for sending us her snapshot of The French Lieutenant’s Woman / Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons movie poster. We are happy seeing Zdeněk Vlach‘s excellent art work (1987) is about to adorn the wall. Impressive illustrator and award winning poster artist designed over 200 movie posters.
3784 posters uploaded to our online archive
+ over 400 artists on our index
+ over 1500 posters in our shop (+ children’s posters)
+ closer observation of 15 artists in our blog
+ the story of film posters take 1 / take 2
+ 1 interview
Looking forward to what 2023 brings.
Thank you for all your continuous support and curiosity,
Judi & Jozef,
Czechoslovak Poster Archive