Illustrated movie poster artwork by Jan Meisner.

• title: The Ruffian | Le ruffian | Drsný chlapík | France, 1983
• director: José Giovanni
• with: Lino Ventura, Bernard Giraudeau, Claudia Cardinale

poster design: Jan Meisner, 1985

Poster has been previously folded. Slight crease and few tiny cracks on edges and fold. Movie poster is in A3 format. Trimmed on borders with scissors (39.9 x 28.4 cm (original size is 42.3 x 30.2)). Very nice condition (NOT PHOTOGRAPHED, PLEASE ASK IF YOU WISH TO SEE A PHOTO).

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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Jan Meisner is a Slovak artist, typographer, illustrator and graphic designer, living in Zlín, Czech Republic where he has been teaching (with a short break) at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications at the University of Thomas Bata since 1996. Jan Meisner studied at the at the School of Applied Arts, Prague (1960 – 1967) and became one of the most prominent Slovak movie poster designers, creating over 40 beautiful movie posters. Meisner’s free use of various art techniques such as collage, drawing, photograph helps to create a visual unity between the movie and the poster.

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1980s movie posters designed in Czechoslovakia.

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