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Thora van Deken
A woman forges a will to keep her daughter, and the north keeps its own counsel.
What
A Swedish placard of 1920 for Thora van Deken, designed by Gunnar Widholm and catalogued by the Swedish Film Database.
Why
Swedish cinema of this moment was building the moral chamber-drama that Germany would shortly borrow and darken. These are the films Berlin studied, and their advertising is correspondingly restrained where German sheets were becoming loud.
Notice
Set this beside the German placards of the same year: the Swedish poster trusts stillness to carry the weight.
“A crime committed out of love, advertised without raising its voice.”
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 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Thora van Deken (1920)
- Country / studio
- Sweden
- Designer
- Gunnar Widholm
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Swedish lithographed film placard, 1920
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Conservation note
Print produced from an AI-enhanced upscale (≈2.1×) of the surviving archival scan (original 535×797px). The upscale raises resolution only — the design is unaltered, and the paper’s folds and age are the artifact’s own.
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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