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Die Pagode
A temple somewhere far east, drawn by someone who had certainly never been there.
What
An original German distribution placard of 1923 for Die Pagode, designed by Willy Dietrich.
Why
Weimar's appetite for invented Asias ran alongside its appetite for ghosts, and often through the same studios and the same designers. These orientalist fantasies are where the period's set-building imagination went when it was not building crooked streets.
Notice
The Commons record identifies this as an original distribution poster rather than a later reissue — an uncommon thing to be able to say about German paper from this year.
“An architecture that existed only on a soundstage and a sheet of paper.”
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
- Die Pagode (1923)
- Country / studio
- Germany
- Designer
- Willy Dietrich
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, original distribution issue, 1923
- 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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