Stunning Avant-Garde Movie Posters from the Soviet Union era

The Bolsheviks recognized the importance of the new art of cinema, and even Vladimir Lenin believed it to be “the most significant of all arts.”

In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequent civil war, the government began to embrace cinema as the most effective propaganda tool. A group of talented young artists emerged and helped create a new Soviet culture. They made dynamic, experimental, explosive posters to draw attention to the movies by papering the streets with vivid colors and arresting imagery.

#1 High Society Wager or The Weather Station, directed by Carl Froelich, 1923

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#2 Kino-Eye, directed by Dziga Vertov, 1924

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#3 John’s Skirts, directed by Clifford S. Smith, 1924

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#4 Battleship Potemkin, directed by Sergei Eisenstein, 1925

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#5 A Sixth Part of the World, directed by Dziga Vertov, 1926

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#6 The Punishment of Shirvanskaya, directed by Ivane Perestiani, 1926

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#7 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, directed by Walter Ruttmann, 1927

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#8 The Eleven Devils, directed by Zoltan Korda and Carl Boese, 1927

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#9 Six Girls Seeking Shelter, directed by Hans Behrendt, 1927

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#10 Spartakiad, directed by Joseph Poselsky, 1927

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#11 The Love Triangle, directed by Abram Room, 1927

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#12 Khuti Tsuti, directed by Alexander Balagin and Georgy Zelondzev-Shipov, 1928

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#13 The Doll with Millions, directed by Sergei Komarov, 1928

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#14 A Real Gentleman, directed by Clyde Bruckman, 1928

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#15 Moulin Rouge, directed by D.A. Dupont, 1928

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#16 Sporting Fever, directed by Alfred Dobbelt and Boris Nikoforov, 1928

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#17 Turksib, directed by Viktor Turin, 1929

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#18 The Communard’s Pipe, directed by Kote Marjanishvili, 1929

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#19 Saba, directed by Mikhail Chiaureli, 1929

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#20 Mortvaya Petlya, directed by Aleksandr Pereguda, 1929

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#21 In Spring, directed by Mikhail Kaufman, 1929

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#22 Fragment of an Empire, directed by Fridrikh Ermler, 1929

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#23 Man with a Movie Camera, directed by Dziga Vertov, 1929

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#24 The Happy Canary, directed by Lev Kuleshov, 1929

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#25 SEP, directed by Mikhail Verner, 1929

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#26 The Annenkov Affair, directed by Nikolai Beresnev, 1933

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#27 Pyshka, directed by Mikhail Romm, 1934

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