East German Poster Database

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• Liebe & Hiebe: aus 100 Jahren Kabarett- Nachtprogramm der Distel.

  This poster is white and is drawn to look like a playing card. The title is in black cursive writing across the top. It shows eight red hearts: one has a bite taken out of it, one looks like it has breasts, one has flames shooting out of it, one shows a key to wind it up, one has a tight chain and lock around it; one is broken, one looks like a cash register and one has a tap coming out of it. At the very bottom is a cherub holding a candle with the words "Night program of Distel" the cabaret.

• Das ist schon nicht mehr feierlich- Nachtprogramm Distel Nachtprogramm

  This poster depicts a man with a long nose peeking over the top of a broken red pillar behind a chain (presumably in a museum). A white border with text in black script is at the bottom. This poster advertises for a work entitled "It's no longer solemn".

• Seekiste- 6. Februar - 6. April 1980- Friedrichstadtpalast

  This poster is black with the title in black shadowed blue at the top and dates below in white. It depicts a wooden crate floating on an ocean in white, blues and red. Two telescopic eyes emerge from the box looking right. The theater's information is at the bottom in white. this poster advertises for "Sea Crate", from February 6th through April 6th.

• Waterloo

  This poster is a line drawing of Napoleon, seated. His jacket is colored in such a way as to look like a map, with green land mass and blue sea; one of his medals forms a compass rose. His hands are red; the red continues up his coat sleeve, ending in splatter. His bicorn hat is black with shades of green on the slope; there is a tricolor cockade on the side. This film is a Soviet and Italian co-production. This poster is acidic, with visible acid burn. There was also a printing or production error, which has resulted in the upper half, center of the poster being folded in on itself.

• Flug durchs Feuer

  This poster is a colored pencil drawing of a commercial passenger aircraft with a red nose cone, in the air. There are tangled green, blue, yellow and brown lines that look like tree roots coming from the underside of the plane, where the wheels would be. There is a background of sketchy brown and golden lines. The image is on a white background. This film is Soviet.

• Fremd unter seinesgleichen

  This poster is a graphic illustration of man in a dark Soviet police uniform shooting a gun. He has a blond mustache, and the foreshortening means that his pink fist is quite large. He his round yellow fingernails. The gun is silver, with a yellow and red flame coming out the barrel. The background is bright green, and there is a black border. The poster is brittle, and there are tears around the edges, and a large chunk out of the upper right hand edge.

• Sinbads gefährliche Abenteuer

  This poster is an illustration of weapons and objects, one atop the other. On the top is a flintlock pistol, with a decorative green ad yellow handle in the shape of a bird. Next is a scimitar, with a matching decorative handle of a mythical creature, and a green and red eye on the hilt. The blade is blue, yellow, and white, and there is blood on the end. Beneath that is a yellow skull, with celestial navigation drawings on it. Beneath that is a spiked brown club. Beneath that is an arrow, with pink and blue quill feathers. Beneath that is a brown ship's wheel. On the left of the wheel is a pink figure, sitting in the lotus position, with a saffron robe across its shoulder. There are rapid black sketch lines throughout the images, which are on a white background. This film is English. The lower right corner has been torn off.

• Sieben tonnen Dollar

  This poster is an illustration of a man and woman in a narrow iron bed. The bed is at the top of a pink and blue spiral, which has fluffy white and blue clouds along it. There are also white balls with numbers on them along the spiral. There is a rainbow above the bed, ending at the top of the poster. The background is a black night sky, with white stars. This film is Hungarian.

• Sinbads siebente Reise

  This poster is a comical illustration of a man in colorful pantaloons and turban, holding a scimitar raised in his right hand. He is standing on the curled tongue of a giant green dragon. The dragon has two horns on the top of his head, and flames and smoke coming from the nostrils on the top of his snout. The background is blue. This film is English.

• So beginnt die Liebe

  This poster features an illustration of a folded airplane. It is made out of blue denim, with yellow "stitching." The wing has a red heart with an arrow through it. On the underside of the wing is a classical illustration of a nude and cupid. The background is a bright grass green. This film is Czechoslovakian. There is a closed tear along the top edge, on the left.

• Der Mann der nach der Oma kam

  This poster is an illustration of a man in a red and blue superhero costume. He wears a green cape, and yellow gauntlets, and has a shield on his chest with the letter "G." He is holding a push broom while flying, and the broom is poised over a dragon. The dragon has a pattern of wash buckets, vessels, and other implements on it. The background is yellow and white, with a blue border. This film is East German. It is acidic.

• Das Raubtier

  This poster is a drawn image of a metal cage with a hinged trapdoor. The door is held open by a rope and has metal spikes arranged across the opening. There is a double-barrelled shotgun inside the cage. The back end of the cage is a blue field with yellow stars and a crescent moon. The background of the image is green. The film is East German.

• Liebe mit 16

  This poster is red and pink with a drawn image of two young girls. One girl is blonde and is seated on a bicycle with a high-backed seat. The other girl is in the foreground and has black hair. The film is East German.

• Die Legende von Paul & Paula

  This poster is a drawn image of a man holding a distraught woman inside of an oval. The woman is tearing at the man's shirt. The image is oddly colored in orange, pink, yellow, and blue. The majority of the poster is a black and white drawing of a group of eyes, ears, and lips pointing fingers at the image in the oval. The film is East German.

• Die Verruchte Lady

  This poster has two illustrated portraits of a red-haired woman in a green dress. The top portrait has the woman holding a flower up to her nose. The bottom portrait is upside down and has the woman holding a flintlock pistol, wearing a black cloth over her face, and baring her breasts. The film is English.

• Die Alten, diese Räuber

  This poster is an illustration of two men carrying a framed painting off of the poster. One of the men is tossing a keyring and handgun out of a bag behind him. The film is Soviet.