BRITANNIA HOSPITAL 1982 Lindsay Anderson - Malcolm McDowell ITALIAN POSTER

Original 1975 Italian 39 inch x 55 inch 2 Fogli Poster for the 1982 Lindsay Anderson Comedy BRITANNIA HOSPITALstarring Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Brian Pettifer, John Moffatt, Fulton Mackay, Vivian Pickles, Graham Crowden, Jill Bennett, Peter Jeffrey, Joan Plowright, Robin Askwith, Mark Hamill, Robbie Coltrane, Dandy Nichols, Brian Glover, Tony Haygarth, Richard Griffiths, Valentine Dyall, Roland Culver, Betty Marsden, Liz Smith, John Gordon Sinclair, Alan Bates, Arthur Lowe, T.P. McKenna and Michael Medwin.

A strike at a hospital on its 500-year anniversary and on the eve of a Royal visit results in mayhem, while a mad doctor uses National Health funds to create Frankenstein-type creatures.

The poster art is by Renato Casaro (born 1935). Casaro is considered to be one of the most important, influential and innovative Italian's film poster artists producing hundreds of works dedicated to the cinema. In 1953, at the age of 18, he joined Studio Favalli, a famous design and art studio in Rome. Three years later he opened his own studio. In 1965 Dino De Laurentiis hired Casaro to design the poster images for the film The Bible: In the Beginning and he went on to design several more posters for De Laurentiis. His career then blossomed working for several different directors and film companies.

The poster is in very good folded condition.