Josef Vyleťal’s astonishing surreal movie poster for ’60s Romanian spy drama.

• title: Top Secret Net | Réseau secret | Tajná síť | Romania, 1967
• director: Jean Bastia
• with: Hans Meyer, Gabriel Cattand, Jean-François Rémi

poster design: Josef Vyleťal, 1971

Poster is in large A1 format (82.4 x 58.5 cm). Folded into quarters. Occasional slight crease across edges and folds. Soft stain/dusty and few little cracks in some parts on edges. Top of the right edge with some tears. 5 cm crack/tear/holes in top part of top fold. Cinema writing with black marker at the back. Very nice condition.

Movie posters in our collection were promotional materials. Posters used on display in the cinemas across the former Czechoslovakia. They bear signs of their age.

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Josef Vyleťal (1940 – 1989) – Czech painter, graphic artist and film or theatre set designer. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Bratislava and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In between 1964 – 1979 he created 115 movie posters. His major influences were surrealism and paintings by North Renaissance old masters. He was married to fine artist and award winning poster designer Olga Poláčková-Vyleťalová.

Award Winning Posters by Josef Vyleťal:

• 1979 – 2nd prize The Hollywood Reporter Magazine, Silver Hugo at the International Film Festival in Chicago (Beauty and the Beast)

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1970s movie posters designed in Czechoslovakia.

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