Fahrendes Volk (Travelling People) was a co–production between France and Germany in peace–time 1938. The circus melodrama was filmed in two language versions, with some actors appearing in both versions – for example, the female lead, the famed French actress Françoise Rosay, whose husband Jacques Feyder, directed both film versions. Heading  the German language version were the super–star Hans Albers and young handsome leading man himself, Hannes Stelzer, as the young lover. Françoise Rosay appeared in two Karl Ritter films before war broke out between France and Germany, and of course Hannes Stelzer appeared in five Ritter films between 1937 and 1943.

This poster was printed in Prague, but with German text (not bilingual with both German and Czech language text, as per the 1938 Olympia posters found in the Collection.) This is something of a mystery, as the world premiere of Fahrendes Volk  took place in Germany on 1 July, 1938, two and a half months after Olympia premiered in Berlin, and the arrival of German troops in Prague had already happened four months earlier. This may well represent, then, a wartime re–release of this 1938 film in the so–called " Protektorat "   – occupied former Czechoslovakia – for the German cinema–going population, when it was no longer thought important to cater to Czech–speaking audiences. There is no censorship stamp of approval or dating on the poster to be found.  This colorful and bright poster graphic design was not used in Germany on the original 1938 poster, and is specific to Prague.  We are assigning the year 1942 to this poster as a midway point in the war years, until more concrete proof is established as to when the poster was printed.