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Geheimnisse des Orients
The Arabian Nights staged by Russian exiles for a German studio at the end of the silent era.
What
A 1928 German placard for the Ufa production Geheimnisse des Orients, designed by the Austrian-German painter Franz Theodor Würbel.
Why
Directed by Alexandre Volkoff and made largely by émigré Russians working in Berlin and Paris, this is one of the last great silent fantasy spectacles before sound closed the form down. Its production history is a map of interwar European exile.
Notice
By 1928 the placard has become poised and pictorial — the jagged handmade urgency of 1920 has been smoothed into professional studio advertising.
“The fantastic, at the very end of its silence.”
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
- Geheimnisse des Orients (1928), dir. Alexandre Volkoff
- Country / studio
- Germany · Ufa
- Designer
- Franz Theodor Würbel
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1928
- 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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