Karel Teissig’s collage poster design for 80s Russian drama.

• title: Fairfax’s Millions | Milliony Ferfaksa | Fairfaxovy milióny | Soviet Union, 1980
• director: Nikolai Ilyinsky
• with: Juozas Budraitis, Grazina Baikstyte, Ilmar Tammur

poster designer: Karel Teissig, Czechoslovakia, 1981

Poster is in A3 format (40.8 x 26.7 cm). Folded in the middle. Slight crease and two tiny cracks on left edge. Pinholes in corners. 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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Karel Teissig was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic / poster designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1945-50) at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1948) and since early 60s became one of the most important figures of Czechoslovak poster design along with Karel Vaca and Zdeněk Ziegler. His imaginative posters are inspired by anything from collage / surreal art to illustration or photography and are undeniable among the best movie posters of the era. In 1961 his unique style won him a second prize for a poster titled The Possessors in the Toulouse-Lautrec Prize international film poster competition in Paris.

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