LEPER

Original Polish 22 3/4 inch x 31 1/2 inch Poster for the 1976 Jerzy Hoffman Polish Romantic Drama LEPER (TREDOWATA), based on the novel by Helena Mniszkowna and starring Elzbieta Starostecka, Leszek Teleszynski, Jadwiga Baranska, Czeslaw Wllejko and Lucina Brusikiewicz.

Waldemar (Leszek Teleszynski) is a Polish aristocrat who lives in a magnificent palace. Stefcia (Elizbieta Starostecka), the woman he falls in love with, is extremely beautiful, but is just a high-school teacher. The town in which they both live is scandalized, and will not permit the two of them to remain together.

Poster art by Franciszek Starowieyski (1930 – 2009).

Franciszek Starowieyski was a painter, illustrator, printmaker, poster artist, theatre and TV set designer dividing his time between the ateliers of Warsaw and Paris, making some 300 posters and earning the name of one of the finest representatives of the Polish school of posters.

The poster is in very good condition with a small semi-circular tear within the hair of the main image. The poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube.