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Krasnye diavolyata (Red Imps)
Three young riders make a private war on a bandit chief, and the young Soviet audience never forgot them.
What
A chromolithograph published in Petrograd by Kino-Sever in 1924 for Ivan Perestiani's civil-war adventure.
Why
Red Imps was the first genuine popular hit of Soviet cinema — an adventure picture that proved revolutionary subject matter could fill a hall. This sheet dates from the earliest years of the designed Soviet film poster, before the montage style had fully hardened into a house manner.
Notice
How much closer this is to illustration than the later montage sheets; 1924 is early enough that the drawing still tells a story rather than assembling one.
“The moment Soviet cinema discovered it could be popular.”
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
- Red Imps (1923), dir. Ivan Perestiani
- Country / studio
- USSR
- Designer
- Mikhail Glazman
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Soviet lithographed film poster, 1924
- 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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