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Streik — Vienna sheet
Vienna advertises the Soviet montage revolution with a graphic language just as blunt as the film's.
What
Mihály Bíró's 1925 Austrian poster for the Vienna release of Sergei Eisenstein's Strike, his first feature.
Why
Red Vienna imported Soviet cinema as a matter of political programme, and it handed the advertising to the exiled Hungarian who had drawn the labour movement's own imagery. Poster and film come out of the same argument, made by different hands in different countries.
Notice
The mass rendered as a single dark shape rather than as individuals — the same compositional instinct Eisenstein was working out in the cutting room.
“Two revolutions in visual form, briefly agreeing on a wall in Vienna.”
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
- Streik (1925), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- Country / studio
- Soviet Union
- Designer
- Mihály Bíró
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Austrian lithographed poster, Vienna release, 1925
- 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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