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Alraune
A scientist grows a woman from a root beneath a gallows and is surprised when she has no mercy.
What
A Swedish release placard of 1928 for the German film Alraune, designed by Eric Rohman, the Stockholm artist who drew a large share of Sweden's cinema advertising between the wars.
Why
Henrik Galeen's Alraune is the German fantastic at full strength — the mandrake legend rebuilt as a story about laboratory creation and its consequences. The Swedish sheets for German horror imports are frequently bolder than the domestic German ones, and Rohman is the reason.
Notice
Rohman worked in gouache at poster scale, and the surface holds a painterly, slightly liquid quality that lithographed German placards of the same year do not have.
“Something grown deliberately, and never once asked.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Alraune (1928), dir. Henrik Galeen
- Country / studio
- Germany · Ama-Film
- Designer
- Eric Rohman
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Swedish release film placard, 1928
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
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