DEVOTION

Original Polish 24 inch x 34 inch Poster for the 1954 Ivan Pyryev Romance DEVOTION (ISPYTANIE VERNOSTI) starring Marina Ladynina, Sergei Romodanov, Vasili Toporkov, Margarita Anastasyeva and Stanislav Chekan.

Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev was a Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes, served as Director of the Mosfilm studios and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry.

Poster art by Jerzy Cherka (1920 –1982).

The poster is in very good folded condition. There is a 2 inch tear down the vertical fold and minor cross fold splitting.