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POSTER ARTIST: ALEKSANDER LEMESHENKO
DIRECTED BY: VLADIMIR SAVELEV
GENRE: DRAMA, BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY
POSTER LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN
PRINT YEAR: 1975
PRINT RUN: 113.000
POSTER COUNTRY: USSR
FILM COUNTRY: USSR
PUBLISHED BY: "REKLAMFILM", MOSCOW
SIZE: IN: 22 x 34 = CM: 55 x 86
PRODUCED BY: DOVZHENKO FILM STUDIO
CONDITION: ROLLED, GOOD
Original vintage Soviet movie (from the first release of this film in Soviet Union - 15 September 1975) poster for the film "Belyy Bashlyk" - is a 1975 Soviet film directed by Vladimir Savelyev. A heroic film poem based on the poem by Bagrat Shinkuba "The Song of the Rock" about the first Abkhazian folk hero - Khajarat Kyakhba.
Word Белый (Belyy) translates to "White", word "Bashlyk" (Turkish Başlık, Azerbaijani Başlıq - headpiece) - a cloth pointed hood, worn in bad weather over any headdress to protect "from cold, rain and heat of the sun"
for ""The film was called "Red Western", one of the leaders in distribution in the USSR (20.8 million viewers), laureate of the All-Union Film Festival. The film is a cult in Abkhazia and poster is very collectable and hard to find one.
The film is a laureate of the 1975 All-Union Film Festival in Chisinau - a special prize for the script (B. Shinkuba) and staging (V. Savelyev), an award for the best sound solution (V. Guba).
The leader of distribution in the USSR - the film was watched by 20,800,000 viewers, it took 12th place among Soviet films, and ended up in 25th place in the entire film distribution, taking into account foreign films, despite the fact that the circulation of copies was 660, several times less than other films. According to this film, the name of the Abkhazian national hero Hadjarat Kyakhba became known to millions of Soviet viewers.
The magazine Art of Cinema, highlighting the performance of Thomas Kokoskir and appreciating the work of the operator, noted the difficulty of filming the poem, in particular, the observance by the film of the traditions of the genre.
The film had a wide release abroad. In Poland - "Bialy baszlyk", in Hungary - "A fehér csuklya", the GDR - "Kopfgeld für den Aufrührer".
As the East German newspaper "Freie Welt" wrote: "Many viewers went to the film, and the film did not disappoint them, Particularly impressive was the main actor Thomas Kokoskier, who shows his character in such a way that he is trustworthy, and not as an unattainable idol."
The artwork is in good overall condition and looks impressive alive. It has one heavy horizontal folds and one crossfold, minor tears and tape repairs on the reverse. Before your bid please consider the poster condition from attached pictures and text description, if you still need more information please feel free to require additional pictures or video, it would be my pleasure to assist you with any questions regarding this auction. Shipping rolled in a hard plastic tube.
Russian Empire, territory of modern Abkhazia. The action takes place shortly after the Revolution of 1905. A man in a white cap - Khajarat Kyakhba, early learned the grief of orphanhood and deprivation of the poor, this young peasant, not wanting to put up with the arbitrariness of local princes, decides to start a fight with them - according to the laws of blood feud, he rises against his oppressors. Soon he meets the Russian worker Yakov, exiled from Russia for participating in the uprising on the battleship Potemkin. Yakov is an agitator, he explains to the Abkhazian peasants other ways of fighting the oppressors than personal revenge. Hajarat Kyakhba, following the example of Jacob, becomes a revolutionary fighter - the defender of the peasants.
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LEMESHENKO ALEXANDER MIKHAILOVICH (1918-1984) - Soviet poster artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.
He lived in Moscow. Since the beginning of the 60s he worked a lot and fruitfully in the field of film posters, created many interesting sheets, including for very famous films: "Under the Sky of Sicily" (1961), "Come Tomorrow" (1963), "Republic Shkid" ( 1966), "Quiet Don" (1967), "Officers" (1971), "Property of the Republic" (1972), "Pirates of the XX century" (1980).Collaborated with the publishing house IZOGIZ. Performed agricultural posters, including together with the artist E.P. Pozdnev ("Hello to the participants of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition", 1955).
In 1958 he took part in the large-scale exhibition "Posters and Satire in 40 Years in the Works of Moscow Artists".In the 1960s and 1970s, Aleksandr Lemeshchenko performed social and political posters: “The country's winged defense is famous for its high rise” (1967, together with SI Datskevich), “Leninism is the banner of the era of revolutionary revelation of the world” (1969).
Lemesheno worked in the creative-production workshop "Agitplakat" of the USSR Union of Artists, was a member of its editorial board. The author of the poster dedicated to space “The air distances became close to us, we were the first to know the way into space. Under the banner of the party, our country is striving into the vastness of communism! " (1963). He also worked a lot and fruitfully in the field of film posters.
He worked until the end of his life, in 1984 he died in Moscow. Circulation posters of Lemeshchenko are kept in the Russian State Library, in private Russian collections.
The works of Alexander Mikhailovich are capacious and at the same time laconic.
