BLACK HOLIDAY 1973 Adolfo Celi PETER STRAUSFELD UK QUAD POSTER

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1973 Marco Leto Drama about fascism in Mussolini's Italy BLACK HOLIDAY (LA VILLEGGIATURA) starring Adalberto Maria Merli, Adolfo Celi, Milena Vukotic, John Steiner, Roberto Herlitzka, Biagio Pelligra, Giuliano Petrelli, Vito Cipolla, Luigi Uzzo, Gianfranco Barra and Silvio Anselmo.

Set during the 1930s, the film stars Adolfo Celi as an irrepressible anti-fascist professor "invited" to take a permanent vacation on a remote Mediterranean island for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to Mussolini.

The poster art is by Peter Strausfeld. Strausfeld was interned in the Isle of Man at the Onchan Internment Camp during the War where he met the Austrian producer George Hoellering. In 1947 Hoellering opened the Academy Cinema on Oxford Street and invited Strausfeld to produce some posters for the cinema which he did in wood and lino-cuts till his death in 1980.

The Academy Cinema, built in 1913, was saved from conversion to a shopping arcade in 1928 by Elsie Cohen of the original Film Society, who proceeded to run it as an arthouse which is how it was ran till it's closure in 1986.

The posters became a London landmark, in fact very few were used outside of London, resulting in very small print runs of 3-500.

Printed by Ward & Foxlow Ltd., 19 Harcourt Street, London W1H 2AX

The poster is in fine unfolded (rolled) condition. Will ship in gorilla proof tube.