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Mädchenhandel
A social-problem film sold with the same red-and-black shorthand its designer used for election posters.
What
Mihály Bíró's 1927 poster for the Vienna premiere of Mädchenhandel — Eine internationale Gefahr, a film on international trafficking.
Why
The Aufklärungsfilm — the 'enlightenment picture' — occupied a peculiar zone between social reform and commercial sensation, and its advertising had to do both jobs at once. Bíró's sheet is the clearest surviving instance of that double register.
Notice
How little the design explains. A single figure and a title were expected to carry a subject the poster could not name outright.
“Reform and exploitation, printed in the same ink.”
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
- Mädchenhandel — Eine internationale Gefahr (1927)
- Country / studio
- Austria
- Designer
- Mihály Bíró
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Austrian lithographed poster, Vienna premiere, 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.
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