Description

[004503] [Spanish Civil War]; Rossif, Frederic. To Die in Madrid. ill. Strausfeld, Peter. No Place: No Publisher, Unknown. UK Quad. Unbound. Poster. Good. Single sided film poster, approximately 1020mm x 760mm in size, n.d. c.1968?

Slightly creased, some wear to edges with a few small nicks and tears, but generally fairly bright, and a striking image

Designed by Peter Strausfeld, a German born artist, who, for 33 years, “created hand-printed linocut posters for each film shown at the three-screen Academy Cinema, London’s leading art house cinema … Strausfeld created all of the images in linocut or woodcut and they appeared in many London Underground stations. He created posters for over 300 different films, all printed by hand in runs of up to 100, rising to 300 in the mid-1970s … From 1959 to 1980, Strausfeld lectured at Brighton College of Art and then in Brighton Polytechnic’s department of graphics” (Wikipedia)

According to IMDB the film was released in the UK in 1968, though other online sources indicate it may have been a little earlier. This seems to be a variant issue, without the name of the cinema above the title, and without the addition of Clouzot’s film, The Picasso Mystery beneath