Today, the London auction of vintage posters at Christie's will be on display a poster for the film "Symphony of a Great City", created by Stenberg brothers, and posters of the films of Sergei Eisenstein's "Strike" and

Stenberg brothers A poster for the film" Symphony of a Great City »
Source: Press Release Christie's

Today in London at the auction of vintage posters Christie's will be put up a poster for the film "Symphony of a Great City", created Stenberg brothers , and posters of the films of Sergei Eisenstein's "Strike" and "Battleship Potemkin».

German film "Symphony of a Great City" tells the story of one day in Berlin, shown through a series of visual images, not united by a single storyline. "Starting to work in the movie - said the film's director, Walter Rutman - I decided to do something based on real life, to create a kind of symphony of many energetic particles that make up the life of a big city." At the time, the film received widespread international recognition and is still a vivid testimony of life in Berlin of the late 1920's. The poster, which will appear today at the auction, was created specifically for the Stenberg brothers Soviet premiere in 1928 (estimate 25-35 thousand pounds).

«Strike" - the first feature-length film by Sergei Eisenstein , based band based on the history of factory workers strike in 1903. In an article published in the newspaper "Pravda", Mikhail Koltsov wrote of the "strike", as the first revolutionary product of the Soviet cinema. It is in the process of working on "strike", Eisenstein realized that working in a movie he is more interesting than in the theater. In the same year he began work on the film "Battleship Potemkin." Unfortunately, to have survived only a small number of posters of the era, as they often are destroyed immediately after the show. Organizers of the auction suggest that the poster that today will be put up for auction is the only one of the existing (estimate 15-25 thousand pounds).

Despite the fact that the Soviet party leaders unanimously recognized the film Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" (also known as "1905"), released in 1925, a masterpiece, it was not very popular with a wide audience. Fame came to him after the shows abroad. In the U.S., he gave a record box-office, but censored in Germany and in the UK has been banned. Poster from the catalog of trades was created, as suggested by Christie's, for announcing shows in the U.S. or Europe (estimate 1-1.5 thousand pounds).

Source : Press Release Christie's