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Hamlet
The prince recast as a woman raised in disguise, and Denmark never quite recovers.
What
A German placard of about 1920 for the Art-Film production of Hamlet, designed by Franz A. Peffer and printed by the Berlin house Meissner & Buch. The surviving sheet is held by the Museum of Modern Art, which supplies the dating.
Why
This Hamlet is Weimar cinema at its most audacious — a version built on the theory that the prince was secretly a princess. The film treats the tragedy as a gothic identity puzzle, which places it squarely alongside the doubles and masks of the German fantastic.
Notice
The sheet is horizontal where film placards of the period are usually upright, and the composition uses that width as space rather than filling it.
“A tragedy sold as a secret.”
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
- Hamlet (1921), dir. Svend Gade
- Country / studio
- Germany · Art-Film
- Designer
- Franz A. Peffer
- Printer / stone
- Meissner & Buch
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- German lithographed film placard, 1920
- 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. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.
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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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