RED MONARCH

Original British 27 inch x 40 inch 1-Sheet Poster for the 1983 Jack Gold Comedy RED MONARCH, based on “The Red Monarch: Scenes From the Life of Stalin”, a collection of short critical essays by the Russian dissident and former KGB agent Yuri Krotkov and starring Colin Blakely as Joseph Stalin, Carroll Baker, George Costigan, Brian Glover, Lee Montague, Nigel Stock, David Suchet and David Threlfall.

The film depicts Soviet politics and the interplay between Stalin and his lieutenants, particularly Beria, during the last years of Stalin’s rule. The reading of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s “The Heirs of Stalin” in the final scene supposedly warns that the threat of totalitarianism is constantly present.

Poster design by John Gorham & Howard Brown.

The poster is in fine unfolded (rolled) condition.