ATTENTAT

Original French 47 inch x 63 inch Poster for the 1972 Yves Boisset Thriller L’ATTENTAT (PLOT) starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Piccoli, Jean Seberg, Gian Maria Volonté, Michel Bouquet, Bruno Cremer, Philippe Noiret, François Périer and Roy Scheider.

L’Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French government and the American CIA connived to have a socialist in exile murdered before he could return to his homeland and start a revolution. Darien, a French journalist (Jean-Louis Tritignant), lures his friend Sadiel (Gian Maria Volonte) from his safe refuge in Geneva to appear on an American-made TV show. In doing so he is, perhaps unwittingly, setting him up for murder. Captured at the border by the French police, Sadiel is given over to a mysterious general from another country who tortures him to try to find out who his supporters are.

Poster art by Roman Cieslewicz

Roman Cieslewicz is one of a handful of graphic artists who attained worlwide recognition. In thirty years or more of concentrated acitivity, he created posters, book jackets and advertisements which have become modern icons of graphic art. A Pole who lived most of his professional life in France, Cieslewicz constantly broke new ground, using imaginative collage, photomontage and typography in campaigns to sell specific products, in announcements and publicity for all sorts of cultural events, and indeed in making incisive political comments on our time.

The poster is in fine folded condition.