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Iwan der Schreckliche — Wiener Uraufführung
A Soviet serf drama renamed for Vienna, and a poster that puts the chains before the czar.
What
Mihály Bíró's 1927 poster, roughly 126 by 187 centimetres, for the Vienna premiere of Krylya kholopa — retitled Iwan der Schreckliche for Austrian audiences.
Why
The retitling is the history here: a film about a serf's wings sold to Vienna under the name of a tyrant, because a tyrant was the more legible product. Distribution rewrote pictures at the border, and the poster is the receipt.
Notice
Bíró's chain motif, carried over intact from his socialist campaign posters into a commercial cinema commission.
“A film renamed at the frontier, advertised by a man who had crossed one himself.”
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
- Krylya kholopa (1926), dir. Yuri Tarich
- Country / studio
- Soviet Union · Goskino
- Designer
- Mihály Bíró
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Austrian lithographed poster, Vienna premiere, 1927
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈1.7×) of the surviving archival scan (original 1024×692px). 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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