10 Soviet avant-garde silent film posters (PICS)
In the 1920s, Soviet designers and artists turned film advertising into bold art, making brand new designs with strong geometry, radical color and artistic drama.
Vladimir Lenin declared cinema “the most important of all arts”, so the poster became the primary means of capturing the audience's attention.
The best avant-garde artists worked on these “street pictures”: Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir and Georgy Stenberg, Anton Lavinsky, Semyon Semyonov-Menes, Nikolai Prusakov, Mikhail Dlugach and other masters, whose names have entered the history of art and world design.
Here are some of these masterpieces…
1. 'Chains of Marriage', dir. Gerhard Lamprecht, 1924
2. 'Berlin: Symphony of a Great City', dir. Walter Ruttmann, 1927
3. 'Mother', dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1926
4. 'The Mill', dir. Lau Lauritzen, 1928
5. 'The Battle Against Berlin', dir. Max Reichmann, 1926
6. 'Turksib', dir. Viktor Turin, 1929
7. 'Ninish', dir. Viktor Janson, 1925
8. 'Albidum', dir. Leonid Obolensky, 1928
9. 'Don Diego and Pelagia', dir. Yakov Protazanov, 1928
10. 'The Trial of Three Million', dir. Yakov Protazanov, 1926
More Soviet film posters can be seen in the 'Speaking Posters of Silent Cinema. Masterpieces of Film Poster Art from the 1920s–1930s from the Alexander Dobrovinsky Collection' exhibition at the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum as part of 'Photobiennale-2026'.
