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Our regular price for this poster is $249 Here we are listing an extremely hard to find (even in Havana) Cuban silk-screen poster for legendary 1970s U.S.-Italian film The Godfather ("El Padrino" in Spanish), starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino and James Caan. This striking poster was designed by one of Cuba's masters, Antonio Pérez, who is known as Ñiko. A copy of this poster is in the permanent collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. This poster is also featured prominently (with a full-page spread) in the 2008 book
A copy of this poster was also chosen for inclusion in the superb Spanish anthology El Cartel de Cine Cubano (The Cuban Film Poster) 1961-2004. And this poster was included in a 2017 exhibition of Cuban posters at the Pasadena Museum of California Art.
Overall condition of this poster is good; as with many Cuban movie posters, please note that you might find some slight ripples or wrinkles in the white borders around the images and small imperfections elsewhere because these posters are, after all, handmade. Buy with 100 percent confidence; posters purchased from the Cuban Poster Gallery on eBay can be returned for any reason within 30 days.
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TITLE: El padrino (The Godfather), designed for the classic 1970s U.S.-Italian film
DESIGNER: Antonio (Ñiko) Pérez (b. 1941)
MEDIUM: Silk-screen / Serigraph
SIZE: 20 x 30 inches; 76 x 51 cm
ORIGIN: the ICAIC (Cuban Film Institute) silk-screen workshop in
A few words about collecting
For more than 60 years, the Cuban Film Institute has been designing silk-screened posters for most every movie shown on the island, whether the films originated in Cuba, the United States, Brazil, Japan or Italy. In the midst of the Cold War 1960s and 1970s, many of the subtitled foreign films shown in
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Adding to their collectability,
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We at the Cuban Poster Gallery offer both 1st and 2nd Edition posters to our customers on eBay and in our
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