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Der Eid des Stephan Huller
A man swears an oath and spends the rest of the film discovering its price.
What
A German placard of 1921 for Der Eid des Stephan Huller, designed by Willy Dietrich.
Why
The fated-vow melodrama was one of Weimar's most reliable formats, and its moral machinery, a binding promise and an inescapable consequence, is the same machinery that drives the period's supernatural films with the supernatural taken out.
Notice
Dietrich builds the sheet around a single upright figure against a dominant flat ground, the standard German solution of the moment for a picture sold on one character.
“Doom arranged by contract rather than by curse.”
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 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Der Eid des Stephan Huller (1921)
- Country / studio
- Germany
- Designer
- Willy Dietrich
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1921
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.4×) of the surviving archival scan (original 452×700px). The upscale raises resolution only — the design is unaltered, and the paper’s folds and age are the artifact’s own.
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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