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Child of the Market, VUFKU

A Paris market girl, printed in Leningrad for Kharkiv.

What

A VUFKU poster of about 1926 to 1928 for the 1924 French film "L'enfant des halles", 106.5 by 74.5 cm, 3,000 copies, from the Tomsky state lithography in Leningrad.

Why

The Ukrainian studio VUFKU ran its own distribution and lettered its posters in Ukrainian.

Notice

The cast is named in Ukrainian across the sheet, Gabriel Signoret and Francine Mussey among them.

“A French film in a Ukrainian voice”

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
L'enfant des halles (1924)
Country / studio
France
Printer / stone
Tomsky State Lithography, Leningrad
Format
Other
Poster published
Soviet Ukrainian film poster for VUFKU, colour lithograph, edition 3,000, 1926
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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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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