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Oblomok imperii (Fragment of an Empire), Evstafiev design
The same lost soldier, sold a second time by a second hand.
What
A chromolithographed one-sheet, 108 by 72 cm, issued by Sovkino in Moscow in an edition of 10,000 — a parallel design to Voronov's for the identical release.
Why
Two commissioned posters for one film is a useful reminder that Soviet film advertising in 1929 was a working industry with rival draughtsmen, not a single official style handed down.
Notice
Compare the sheet ratio against the Voronov version: this one is the taller standard format, and the composition is built to fill it differently.
“One picture, twice imagined, because selling a film was never a solved problem.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Fragment of an Empire (1929), dir. Friedrich Ermler
- Country / studio
- USSR · Sovkino
- Designer
- Mikhail Evstafiev
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Soviet lithographed film poster, 1929
- 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.
The same film, another screen
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The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
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