logos.jpg“History is not about the facts. It is about the context and who is telling the story.” —Prof. Milton Fine. 

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."   –– George Orwell in his novel "1984." 

"Whoever doubts the exclusive guilt of Germany for the Second World War destroys the foundation of post–war politics." ––  Prof. Theodor Eschenberg, Rector, the University of Tübingen.

"If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how."         –  Friedrich Nietzsche

 

POSTER GALLERY  --view

over 500 German film

original posters betweenpngtree-15-years-anniversary-logo-with-ribbon-png-image_5280377-1812814530.jpg

1927–1954  from

Germany and from

many Axis and Neutral countries

across Europe!  

 

Note!  Posters in the Poster Gallery are PERMANENT

acquisitions which are NOT FOR SALE!!   ONLY the

posters listed in our POSTER STORE are for sale. 

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Pour le Mérite (Pour le Merite)

 

This is a 24.5 inch X 11.5 inch photomontage of the Karl Ritter film, as sent out by Ufa to cinema owners, to encourage them to promote the film. Advertising on the backside of this montage indicates that cinema owners could order from Ufa two diffferent sized enlargements of this photomontage –– the smaller was 0,80 meters X 1,65 meters (or  approx. 31 inches X 64 inches / 2.5 X 5.3 feet) and the larger size was 1,20 meters X 2,54 meters (or approx. 47 inches X 99 inches / 4 feet X 8.25 feet). 

 

The film premiered at the prestigious Uƒa Palast am Zoo cinema in Berlin on 28 December 1938, to great acclaim and box office record–breaking attendances. Six weeks later, in a cinema elsewhere in Germany (not known) the following photograph was snapped of that movie theatre's Manager and his proud ushers and usherettes, on 17 February 1939, before the first screening of the film in their theatre, as confirmed in the sign board upper right on the photo.

 

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Year
1938
 
Director
Ritter
 
Country
Germany