OUR HEART

Original Polish 22 inch x 44 inch Poster for the 1947 Alexander Stolper Jet Aircraft Drama BLYSKAWICA (OUR HEART)(NASHE SERDTSE) starring Vladimir Druzhnikov and Mikhail Kuznetsov.

Sasha Samokhin is a Soviet pilot fighting in the frontline who works out a dog-fight formula, and Olya, his bride, works at an aircraft factory and helps Kazakov, the designer, to draft models of Molnia supersonic aircraft. Nobody gives them support, but soon the pilots realize that Sasha is right, and Kazakov gets an authorization from Moscow for construction of the new aircraft. After the victory over Hitler’s Germany the Molnia aircraft makes a round-the-world flight at supersonic speed.

Poster art by Nikolai Mikhailovich Chomov (1903 – 1974). Distinguished artist of the Russian Federation, Graduate of Vkhutemas, the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow. A leading master of the cinema poster, starting in this field as a student.

Blyskawica translates as ‘lightning’.

The poster is in very good folded condition with a 3 inch tear in the right border and other minor defects.