JULIET OF THE SPIRITS

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1965 Federico Fellini Drama JULIET OF THE SPIRITS starring Giulietta Masina, Alba Cancellieri, Mario Pisu, Sylva Koscina, Sandra Milo, Valentina Cortese, Caterina Boratto, Lucia della Noce, Lou Gilbert, José de Villalonga and Cesarino Miceli Picardi.

Fellini’s wife Masina is superb as a Roman housewife who fears her husband is unfaithful and enters into grotesque surreal fantasies.

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, Harcourt St., London W.1.

The poster is in very good unfolded (rolled) condition.