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In the Mire
Old habits pull at the new world from below.
What
Poster for a 1927 Soviet social drama by artist Maxim Litvak-Maximov.
Why
Films about backsliding and vice were framed as a fight of clean line against murk.
Notice
Litvak-Maximov weighs the composition downward into its title.
“New world dragged downward”
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
- V tryasine (1927)
- Country / studio
- Soviet Union
- Designer
- Maxim Litvak-Maximov
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Soviet film poster, lithograph, 1927
- 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.
