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Metropolis — the Bilinsky Paris One-Sheet
Lang’s city, redrawn for Paris in Deco lacquer.
What
Boris Bilinsky’s Paris-release one-sheet for Metropolis — the same film as the German crown piece, reimagined entirely for the French screen.
Why
Bilinsky, a Russian émigré working in Paris, gave the film a wholly different face: where Schulz-Neudamm went sculptural and golden, Bilinsky went Deco, lacquered, and cool.
Notice
Compare it to the German one-sheet — same film, two civilizations of design, hung side by side.
“One city, two dreams of it.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution doesn't clear our floor for a physical print, so this piece is offered as a digital download only.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Metropolis (1927), dir. Fritz Lang
- Country / studio
- Germany · UFA
- Designer
- Boris Bilinsky
- Printer / stone
- lithograph, Paris
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- French theatrical release one-sheet, Paris, 1927
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin scan)
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 2026-07-16. Scan resolution supports digital download only; a higher-res source is sought for physical prints.
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