BOLSHAYA ZHIZN 1956 Leonid Lukov Boris Andreyev Shamash RUSSIAN POSTER

Original 1958 Russian 19 inch x 25 1/4 inch Poster for the 1957 Grigori Nikulin & Vladimir Shredel Russian Drama THE BRIDE (NEVESTA), based on the short story by Anton Chekhov and starring Tatiana Piletskaya, Oleg Basilashvili, Olga Kazik, Rosa Sverdlov, Fedor Nikitin, Boris Kokovkin, and A. Shatrova.

Nadya Shumin is engaged to be married to Andrey Andreitch, the son of a local priest. Nadya lives on her grandmother’s estate with her mother, “a fair-haired woman tightly laced in, with a pince-nez, and diamonds on every finger.” While Nadya is a woman with a great desire for education and independence, Andrey is a friendly but rather vacuous and totally unmotivated man. Sasha, an ill and impoverished young man who is spending the summer on the estate has long been considered part of the family. Sasha implores Nadya to follow her heart – to go to Petersburg and attend the University.

Poster art by Turetski.

The poster is in very good folded condition with minor paper loss and the centre cross fold.