Josef Vyleťal’s eerie surreal collage poster for ’60s Czech crime drama.

• title: The Murderer Hides His Face | Vrah skrývá tvář | Czechoslovakia, 1966
• director: Petr Schulhoff
• with: Rudolf Hrušínský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jiří Pleskot

poster design: Josef Vyleťal, 1966

Josef Vyleťal (1940 – 1989) – Czech painter, graphic artist and film or theatre set designer. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Bratislava and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In between 1964 – 1979 he created 115 movie posters. His major influences were surrealism and paintings by North Renaissance old masters. He was married to fine artist and award winning poster designer Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová.

Award Winning Posters by Josef Vyleťal:

• 1979 – 2nd prize The Hollywood Reporter Magazine, Silver Hugo at the International Film Festival in Chicago (Beauty and the Beast)

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