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Der letzte Mann
A proud doorman falls, and the camera falls with him.
What
Theo Matejko's 1924 poster for F. W. Murnau's Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh).
Why
Murnau's near-wordless drama freed the camera to move as never before, telling a whole life through a uniform and its loss.
Notice
Notice the towering figure reduced, in Matejko's design, to a bowed silhouette.
“A man is his uniform.”
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 letzte Mann (1924), dir. F. W. Murnau
- Country / studio
- Germany · Universum Film AG (UFA)
- Designer
- Theo Matejko
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- German lithograph film poster, 1924
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.4×) of the surviving archival scan (original 472×700px). 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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