Rare Film Posters

ELEKTREIA

£450.00

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1974 Miklós Jancsó Hungarian Drama ELEKTREIA (BELOVED ELECTRA) (SZERELMEM, ELEKTRA), based on the play by László Gyurkó and starring Mari Töröcsik, Jozsef Madaras, György Cserhalmi, Mária Bajcsay, Lajos Balázsovits, Gabi Jobba, Tamás Cseh, Tamás Jordán, Zsolt Körtvélyessy, Velecky Frantisek and Aposztolisz Burulitisz PLUS the 1971 Miklós Szinetár Bela Bartok Ballet Film THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra’s mother to kill him.

The poster art is by Peter Strausfeld. Strausfeld was interned in the Isle of Man at the Onchan Internment Camp during the War where he met the Austrian producer George Hoellering. In 1947 Hoellering opened the Academy Cinema on Oxford Street and invited Strausfeld to produce some posters for the cinema which he did in wood and lino-cuts till his death in 1980.

The Academy Cinema, built in 1913, was saved from conversion to a shopping arcade in 1928 by Elsie Cohen of the original Film Society, who proceeded to run it as an arthouse which is how it was ran till it’s closure in 1986.

The posters became a London landmark, in fact very few were used outside of London, resulting in very small print runs of 3-500.

Printed by Ward & Foxlow Ltd., 19 Harcourt Street, London W1H 2AX

The poster is in fine unfolded (rolled) condition.

Availability: 1 in stock

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster