MICHAEL STROGOFF

Original Italian 39 inch x 55 inch Poster for the 1970 Eriprando Visconti Drama MICHAEL STROGOFF (DER KURIER DES ZAREN), based on the novel by Jules Verne and starring John Phillip Law, Mimsy Farmer, Hiram Keller, Delia Boccardo and Kurt Meisel.

A captain in the Czar’s army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia.

Poster art by Sandro Symeoni (1928 – 2007). An Italian illustrator, best known for his pictorial works dedicated to cinema poster design. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Ferrara, he began working as a caricaturist for some local newspapers. In the early fifties he moved to Rome where he started working as a film illustrator. In over fifty years in his career he has created more than 3000 posters collaborating with the main Italian and American film companies.

The poster is in very good folded condition with a sticker in the bottom right corner.