Zdeněk Vlach’s movie poster for Soviet award winning psychological war drama.

• title: The Ascent | Voskhozhdenie | Vzestup | Soviet Union, 1977
• director: Larisa Shepitko
• with: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev

poster designer: Zdeněk Vlach, 1977

Poster is in A3 format (40.8 x 28.9 cm). Folded in the middle. Slight crease and micro cracks on edges. Pinholes. Folds in some corners. Stain spot in bottom left corner. Soft scratch marks across bottom part. Bit of pen writing 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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Zdeněk Vlach is renown Czech poster designer and book illustrator. He finished two years at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague and exhibited his work since 1960s. He has created over two hundreds movie posters during his career. Zdeněk Vlach received poster award from The Hollywood Reporter Magazine for Men’s Summer in 1977 and also Gold Medal for his movie poster Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin from International Film Festival Chicago in 1982.

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