POSTER ARTIST: JEAN MASCII
DIRECTED BY: ALEXANDR PTUSHKO
GENRE: FANTASY, ADVENTURE, BYLINA
POSTER LANGUAGE: FRENCH
PRINT YEAR: 1959
PRINT RUN: UNKNOWN
POSTER COUNTRY: FRANCE
FILM COUNTRY: USSR
PUBLISHED BY: SOVEXPORTFILM
SIZE: IN: 22 ¾ x 31½ = CM: 58 x 80
PRODUCED BY: MOSFILM STUDIO
CONDITION: FOLDED
Original official Soviet movie poster for the film: "ILYA MUROMETS". - is the first Soviet widescreen feature film by Alexander Ptushko based on Russian folk epics about the hero Ilya Muromets. It was released on the screens of the USSR on November 16, 1956
The shooting of the fairy tale film, in addition to the pavilions of Mosfilm, took place in the Crimea and on the banks of the Kama reservoir near the villages of Lunezhki and Konstantinovka, where the native village of the hero Karacharovo was built. The scenery of Ancient Kyiv with city buildings and a fortress wall was erected on the Tea Hill in Yalta, and Dnieper scenes were filmed on the banks of the newly built Simferopol reservoir.
For an episode of the invasion of the Tugar horde, several tens of thousands of horsemen and foot "warriors" would have been required - an impossible task from the point of view of the film's economics and organization. But A. Ptushko would not have been an outstanding director if he had not involved young and ambitious cameramen B. Travkin, A. Renkov and artist E. Svidetelev, who are able to combine several methods of combined shooting into one in order to achieve the desired result.
Ilya is a cripple without the use of his legs. When he aids some weary travellers, they surprise him by giving him a potion that restores his legs. He immediately becomes powerful and sets off to prove himself to his King. Doing so, he fights the evil Tugars, a wind demon that looks like a cross between a goblin and The Noid, a zeppelin-like ambassador, and the evil Tugars. Ilya gets framed for a crime he didn't commit, then is freed, then finally dispatches the Tugars and their dragon.
☆ Boris Andreyev ☆ Shukur Burkhanov ☆ Andrei Abrikosov
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Jean Mascii is a French painter, poster artist and illustrator. He was born on July 5, 1926, in Mirandola, Italy and died on November 16, 2003, in Paris.
He designed his first poster in 1947. He also created book covers for publishers and book covers for the music hall. In his career, he designed early 1500 cinema posters and more than 250 book covers and visual for advertising and press he has drawn.
Jean Mascii was one of the most productive creator of movie posters in France along with Rene Ferracci, Clement Hurel, Michel Landi, and Boris Grinsson. In 1951, he created poster for Leather nose. In 1953, he produced the movie poster for Rue de l’Estrapade by Jacques Becker. He also drew the movie poster for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Richard Fleischer, and in the same year, 1955, the Napoleon by Sacha Guiltry. A year after, he created the film poster for The Couturier of These Ladies by Jean Boyer, Bob the High Roller by Jean-Pierre Melville, Giant by George Stevens, and The Fury Living by Nicholas Ray. In 1957, he made movie poster for the Bridge of the River Kwai by David Lean and the Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini. And in 1959, he created the poster for Rio Bravo by Howard Hawks. In 1987, he made the movie poster for Masters of the Universe by Gary Goddard. He was active in making poster from 1950 to 1980s.
