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Chyortovo koleso (The Devil's Wheel)
A sailor loses an evening to a fairground and wakes up among thieves.
What
A chromolithographed one-sheet, 107 by 71 cm, published by Leningradkino in 1926 in an edition of 20,000.
Why
The first feature by Kozintsev and Trauberg's FEKS group, whose 'eccentric' method took circus, fairground and slapstick seriously as revolutionary form. Nikolai Tyrsa, who drew this sheet, was a serious painter and book illustrator working in the poster trade.
Notice
The fairground wheel as an organising device — a form that lets a flat sheet imply rotation without drawing motion.
“The city as a machine that spins you off into somebody else's life.”
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 11x17" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Devil's Wheel (1926), dir. Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
- Country / studio
- USSR · Leningradkino
- Designer
- Nikolai Tyrsa
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Soviet lithographed film poster, 1926
- 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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