Zdeněk Vlach’s surreal poster illustration for 80s Czechoslovak war drama.

• title: … Or to Be Killed (unofficial) | … nebo být zabit | Czechoslovakia, 1985
• director: Martin Hollý jr.
• with: Milan Kňažko, Martin Zounar, Hana Pastejříková

poster design: Zdeněk Vlach, 1985

Poster is in A3 format (40.3 x 28.2 cm). Unfolded. Occasional slight crease across. Some paper loss/tears and glue spots at the back. Bit more crease and transparent paper in those parts (mostly in top). Some spots across bottom right corner. Very nice condition (NOT PHOTOGRAPHED, PLEASE ASK IF YOU WISH TO SEE A PHOTO).

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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