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The Wrestler in the Black Mask, 1913
A masked wrestler on a Vita studio bill.
What
The Vita company's poster for its 1913 film "The Wrestler in the Black Mask".
Why
Wrestling was a music-hall craze in the Russia of 1913, and the cinema took it straight from the ring.
Notice
The mask is the whole pitch.
“The circus comes to the cinema”
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
- Borets pod chernoi maskoi (1913)
- Country / studio
- Russian Empire · Vita
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Russian Empire film poster, 1913
- 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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