Zdeněk Ziegler’s illustrated poster artwork for 1980s action crime movie.

• title: The Chain | Řetěz | Czechoslovakia, 1981
• director: Jiří Svoboda
• with: Zora Ulla Keslerová, Pavel Nový, Miroslav Zounar

poster design: Zdeněk Ziegler, 1981

Poster is in A3 format (42.1 x 29.6 cm). Folded in the middle. Some crease on edges. Few little cracks on bottom of the right edge. Another smaller crack in top corner. Folds and pinholes in the corners. Cinema stamps visible across bottom part. 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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Zdeněk Ziegler is a legendary Czech graphic designer, typographer and book illustrator. He studied Architecture at Technical University in Prague and designed movie posters since 1963. Zdeněk Ziegler took part in many prestigious international poster exhibitions and his work was also presented in several solo exhibitions. He is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Association of Czech Graphic Designers Typo &. During his career Zdeněk Ziegler won several movie poster awards. His poster for Electra Glide in Blue got him Golden Hugo at the IFF Chicago.

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