#czech poster

[disneyposters]

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

So, I got a bit curious about Goncharov, particularly as someone interested in other countries' posters for America's movies (my favourites include Showa era Japanese ones, look up Japan's Army of Darkness poster some time). It was already difficult given it was once lost (I was beginning to think maybe it never left the states), but to add to that it was released in the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia at the time, their posters are always wild) under a completely different name. 'Hrnčíř Diskotéky', or if Google translate is to be believed, 'Disco Potter'.

Or at least, according to this poster. It has the exact same cast and director, and it does contain interpretations of things from the film, so it's my best guess that this is the Czech poster for Goncharov, and that must have been its name there.

It is pretty interesting poster in its own right, has what I often like about Czech posters anyway. But something else intrigued me. The odd knife. Now obviously, it's not the knife that killed Goncharov and Andrey. That could be just artistic license and lack of communication between countries, but the way De Niro is holding it in his mouth...

I googled as best I could of the knife's description, and it might be a bollock dagger. A type of dagger with a hilt that's deliberately meant to resemble testicles. Yep.

So, the designer might've noticed the subtext long before the film's new fans, or maybe the Czech Republic got a more explicit cut.

Either way...they knew.

[disciplinethepainter]

[chaplinfortheages]

A Czech poster “Modern Times” - 1936

[midmarauder]

Posters for John Cassavetes’ “GLORIA”

www.midnight-marauder.com

[bobbole]

Solaris (1972) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Czech poster by Jaros Aleksei

[movieposters]

El amor brujo aka Bewitched Love (1986), Carlos Saura

[felineillusion]

Ulysses and the Stars (Odysseus a Hvězdy) / 1976 / dir. Ludvík Ráza

Czech poster designed by Eva Haskova