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A Polish release poster could sell a movie with a painted face, a set of mismatched letters, or an image that never appears on screen. These designs show how artists from Henryk Tomaszewski to Jakub Erol found their own ways into Polish films and imports. Dates refer to the posters, so they can differ from the year a film first came out.

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Cabaret (1973)
Cabaret (1973): Wiktor Górka arranges black-stockinged legs around a singer’s painted face. The legs form a swastika…
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Citizen Kane (1948)
Citizen Kane (1948): Henryk Tomaszewski breaks the film’s title and imagery into pieces. The collage looks like strips of…
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Alien (1980)
Alien (1980): Jakub Erol gives a pink, ribbed mask two round blue eyes and a fringe of red tendrils. The form sits against…
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Vertigo (1963)
Vertigo (1963): Roman Cieślewicz sets a red, blue, and green bull’s-eye on the forehead of a skull. The colored rings hold…
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Eroica (1957)
Eroica (1957): Roman Cieślewicz pairs two cutout figures with jagged fields of cream and red. The split makes it easy to…
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How I Unleashed the Second World War, Part 1: Escape (1969)
How I Unleashed the Second World War, Part 1: Escape (1969): Jerzy Flisak makes a soldier leap like a cartoon figure…
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Knife in the Water (1962)
Knife in the Water (1962): Jan Lenica turns the film’s three characters into dark blue shapes that are part fish and part…
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Diabolique (1957)
Diabolique (1957): Teresa Byszewska-Lenica stretches rough black letters across a bright blue field. A single sharply drawn…
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Carmen Jones (1959)
Carmen Jones (1959): Wojciech Fangor cuts a black silhouette across yellow brushstrokes, then places a film still inside…
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The House Under the Rocks (1959)
The House Under the Rocks (1959): Franciszek Starowieyski cuts a woman’s pale profile out of a black field. A small…
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Hands Over the City (1964)
Hands Over the City (1964): Leszek Hołdanowicz stacks black and cream strips across the page. Their irregular contours…
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Une Parisienne (1958)
Une Parisienne (1958): Waldemar Świerzy places thin, tall letters across a few bright shapes that suggest a woman’s figure…
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The End of the Night (1957)
The End of the Night (1957): Jan Młodożeniec puts the title inside a broad black shape. The small pale face and the hand…
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Man of Iron (1981)
Man of Iron (1981): Renata Pajchel and Andrzej Pągowski layer scratch marks and red spatters over a black-and-white…
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The Secret of the Cipher (1960)
The Secret of the Cipher (1960): Stanisław Zagórski fills the poster with rows of letters and numbers. The outlines of a…
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Sinhá Moça (1956)
Sinhá Moça (1956): Roman Cieślewicz reduces a woman’s figure to black and cream shapes and gives her a blue flower. The…
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The Promised Land (1975)
The Promised Land (1975): Waldemar Świerzy presents an industrialist in a top hat with a white cravat. The face recedes…
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1973)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1973): Wiktor Górka turns two metallic circles into a pair of staring eyes. The geometric face and…
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Apocalypse Now (1981)
Apocalypse Now (1981): Waldemar Świerzy paints a red-orange head and sends sharp strokes across it. The eyes remain visible…
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973): Franciszek Starowieyski joins a huge red eye to the lower half of a skull. The tiny…
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Sleeping Beauty (1962)
Sleeping Beauty (1962): Hanna Bodnar paints the sleeping princess in a cool palette, with pink warming her cheeks. The…

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