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Kain i Artyom (Cain and Artyom)
A drama in six parts, after Gorky, about the friendship between a beaten man and a strong one.
What
A four-colour chromolithograph, 92 by 62 cm, published by Sovkino in Moscow in 1929 in an edition of 10,000 and printed at the Sovkino lithography.
Why
Pavel Petrov-Bytov made his name at the Leningrad studio arguing that Soviet cinema had drifted away from ordinary audiences. The poster for his Gorky adaptation is accordingly direct — it wants to be read from across a street.
Notice
The scale of the lettering against the figure work; the type is not a caption here, it is a structural element carrying its share of the composition.
“Four colours, one street, a story about who gets to be strong.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Cain and Artyom (1929), dir. Pavel Petrov-Bytov
- Country / studio
- USSR · Sovkino, Leningrad studio
- Designer
- Leonid Voronov
- Printer / stone
- Sovkino lithography, Moscow
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Soviet lithographed film poster, 1929
- 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.
In the room
Where it would hang
The reproduction, framed and lit, in rooms built for looking. A rendering — your walls, your frame.
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