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Oblomok imperii (Fragment of an Empire)
A shell-shocked soldier wakes years late into a country he no longer recognises.
What
A chromolithograph and autotype sheet, 94 by 61 cm, published by Sovkino in Leningrad in an edition of 10,000 and printed at the Sokol typolithography.
Why
Friedrich Ermler's film is the great Soviet study of amnesia as history, and the poster trade around it was competitive enough that Sovkino commissioned more than one design. This is the Voronov version.
Notice
The way flat printed colour is set against photographic autotype in the same sheet — two different technologies of image arguing on one surface.
“A man reassembled from pieces, advertised by a picture assembled the same way.”
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
- Leonid Voronov
- Printer / stone
- Sokol typolithography, Leningrad
- 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.
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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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