ROUND-UP

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1965 Miklos Jancso Hungarian Historical Drama THE ROUND-UP (SZEGENYLEGENYEK) starring Janos Gorbe, Zoltán Latinovits, Tibor Molnár and Gábor Agárdy.

”On many writers, critics and filmmamkers Best Film lists, and widely acknowledged as Jancsó’s supreme masterpiece, The Round-Up is set in a detention camp, at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians in 1869. Jancsó avoids conventional heroics to focus on the persecution and dehumanization manifest in a time of conflict and creates a terrifying picture of war that continues to resonate today.”

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. Most of these posters were printed at the prestigious Westminster Press and Ward & Foxlow.

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