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For Freedom, for the People! 1917
A film-opera with live singers, sold in revolutionary red.
What
Kalmanson's poster for a "kino-opera" with live speech, a troupe and a chorus, printed by the Pechatnik press in Moscow in 1917, 107 by 71 cm.
Why
After February 1917 the Moscow studios dressed their pictures in the slogans of the street.
Notice
The small print promises singers in the hall alongside the film.
“The revolution as a night at the cinema”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Za svobodu, za narod! (1917)
- Country / studio
- Russia
- Designer
- Mikhail Kalmanson
- Printer / stone
- Pechatnik, Moscow
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- Russian film poster, chromolithograph, Pechatnik press, Moscow, 1917
- 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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