Josef Vyleťal’s minimalist surreal poster design for ’60s Czech crime thriller.

• title: On The Trail Of Blood | Po stopách krve | Czechoslovakia, 1969
• director: Petr Schulhoff
• with: Rudolf Hrušínský, Vladimír Ptáček, Hana Brejchová

poster design: Josef Vyleťal, 1970

Poster is in A3 format (A3 40.3 x 29.1 cm). Folded in the middle. Occasional slight crease and few micro cracks on edges. 0.4 cm crack on the bottom of the right edge. 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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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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1970s movie posters designed in Czechoslovakia.

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