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German 1967 German reissue movie poster for Akira Kurosawa’s cinematic masterpiece, Seven Samurai (Die Sieben Samurai).
Poster Details & History
• Graphic Artist: The striking, minimalist design was created by the German graphic designer Melvin E. Crznowski.
• Visual Composition: It features a stark, blood-red and black color scheme with the silhouettes of seven mounted samurai traveling across a horizontal white band under a dark, stylized sun, juxtaposed against a large, expressive red portrait of Toshiro Mifune's character.
• Release Context: This particular poster format is a standard German A1 size (approximately 23" x 33" or 59 x 84 cm) distributed by Atlas Film for the movie’s first major theatrical re-release in Germany during the late 1960s. |
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