EVERYTHING FOR SALE

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1968 Andrzej Wajda EVERYTHING FOR SALE (WSZYSTKO NA SPRZEDAZ) starring Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Lapicki, Witold Holtz, Malgorzata Potocka, Bogumil Kobiela, Elzbieta Kepinska, Irena Laskowska, Tadeusz Kalinowski and Wieslaw Dymny.

The film told the story of actor Zbygniew Cybulski, who died in an accident in 1967. Iit is a film about a film, a film about a friend who died a tragic accidental death, about a marriage that went on the rocks, and a love that was never fulfilled, about death and oblivion.

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.