Der Sechste
Artist
Ernst
Date1982
Dimensions31 7/8 x 22 1/2 in. (81 x 57.2 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Saul Zalesch
Object numberPH.7357
DescriptionThe poster promotes the 1982 German release of the 1981 Soviet film The Sixth; in a dramatic composition suggesting a Western showdown, the red-booted leg of a single, striding man dominates the foreground while men on horseback disperse in the background. The film is set during a period of lawlessness in 1923 under the Soviet regime; a band of White guards has already murdered five local militia chiefs when the sixth mobilizes the people and takes a stand. The film was produced by the famous Gorky Studio in Moscow, founded in 1915, only a year after the country’s first film studio, Lenfilm. By 1989 and the end of the Soviet period, it had produced more than one thousand films, many of which became classics. The film was released by Progress-Film Verleih, founded in 1950 as the only distributor of films produced by DEFA, the state-controlled film-production company of Communist East Germany, in addition to imported films.On View
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