Polish German Russian Movie Poster Artists…

Click on the name or movie poster to learn more about each artist’s most famous posters…

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Jerzy Flisak                                        Jan Mlodozeniec

the muppet movie swierzy polish movie posterpolish poster_the professionals wiktor gorka
Waldemar Swierzy                              Wiktor Gorka

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Hans Braun                                       Hans Hillman

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Boris Bilinsky

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Maciej Zbikowski                                Andrzej Pagowski

the american friend movie poster sickerts55 days at peking german poster klaus ruttersstenberg bros russian film poster2

Sickert                             Klaus Rutters             Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg

And let’s not forget these enchanting Danish poster artists below…

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Karl Wenzel                       Stilling                            Stevenov

Ripping Them Softly?

The new minimalist one-sheet for the Brad Pitt thriller, Killing Them Softly, looks like it may have taken a page from the classic German poster for The Maltese Falcon by Hans Hillman.

The Street Posters of San Francisco

Owen Smith has drawn up book covers, album covers, and magazine covers (his rich, moody film noiry style has been most recognizably seen on The New Yorker) –– but no movie posters –– unless you count his 2008 San Francisco Market Street poster campaign celebrating Dashell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon.

And now Bay Area BART subway stations are going to be decorated with his latest designs promoting the summer reading season, featuring Hammett, Jack London, and Amy Tan.