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The Overcoat
A clerk's new coat glows against the cold weight of the city.
What
Poster for the FEKS adaptation of Gogol, directed by Kozintsev and Trauberg.
Why
The Eccentrics matched an eccentric image: fractured Petersburg geometry around one small man.
Notice
Zelensky bends the lettering into the architecture of dread.
“Small man crushed by geometry”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Shinel (1926), dir. Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg
- Country / studio
- Soviet Union · Leningradkino (FEKS)
- Designer
- Alexander Zelensky
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Soviet film poster, lithograph, 1926
- 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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