CYRANO ET D’ARTAGNAN

Original Italian 13 1/4 inch x 27 3/4 inch Locandina Poster for the 1964 Abel Gance Swashbuckling Adventure CYRANO ET D’ARTAGNAN, loosely based on the characters created by Alexandre Dumas & Edmond Rostand and starring Jose Ferrer (in the title role as Cyrano de Bergerac), Jean-Pierre Cassel (in the title role as D’Artagnan), Sylva Koscina, Dahlia Lavi, Michel Simon, Rafael Rivelles (as Cardinal Richelieu), Laura Valenzuela (as Queen Anne) and Philippe Noiret (as King Louis XIII).

Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d’Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.

Poster art by Piero Ermanno Iaia. Born in Rome in 1933, Ermanno Iaia graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1959 he worked with Studio Favalli, at the time one of the most famous and qualified among those who work for cinema, and he then started long partnerships with numerous Italian and American distribution companies, for which Iaia signed about eight hundred sketches for a total of four hundred films, which he produced at a very fast pace. Iaia also worked for various production companies such as MGM, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal, creating posters for foreign countries.

His first poster was for Richard Flesicher’s “Barabbas” (1961) for which various poster designers were commissioned, including Averardo Ciriello and Iaia himself. In 1964 Iaia made his first sketch for an important Italian film “Seduced and Abandoned”, by Pietro Germi (1964), in which the protagonist Stefania Sandrelli is surrounded by numerous male faces.

The poster is in very good folded condition.