MERRY CHRISTMAS MR LAWRENCE 1982 David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto FRENCH POSTER

Original French 47 inch by 63 inch Poster for the 1982 Nagisa Oshima War Movie MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR LAWRENCE, based on the novel “The Seed and the Sower” by Laurens Van Der Post and starring David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson and Nagisa Ohshima.

In this captivating, skewed World War II drama, David Bowie regally embodies Celliers, a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. Tom Conti is the British lieutenant colonel Lawrence, who tries to bridge the emotional and language divides between captor and prisoner. Also featuring actor-director Takeshi Kitano in his first dramatic role, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a multilayered, brutal, at times erotic tale of culture clash, and one of Oshima’s greatest successes.

Poster art by Michel Landi (born 1932). Landi, born in Fontainebleau, is a French poster designer and artist. He created nearly 1,500 movie posters and is, with René Ferracci, Boris Grinsson, Clément Hurel and Jean Mascii, one of the most prolific creators of movie posters in France in the second half of the 20th century.

The poster is in very good folded condition apart from a small piece (1 3/4 inch x 1 1/4 inch) out of the top left corner. There is some darkening on the back of the part of the poster that was on the outside when it was fully folded. This does not affect the image.