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A Gendarme Captain's Career, 1917
Khanzhonkov turns on the tsar's police.
What
The Khanzhonkov poster for its 1917 film about a captain of the gendarmerie.
Why
After February 1917 the studios rushed out films against the old police state.
Notice
The uniform is the villain.
“Settling accounts on screen”
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 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Karera zhandarmskogo rotmistra (1917)
- Country / studio
- Russia · A. Khanzhonkov & Co.
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Russian film poster, A. Khanzhonkov & Co., 1917
- 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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