ONE FINE DAY 1969 Ermanno Olmi PETER STRAUSFELD UK ACADEMY QUAD POSTER

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1969 Ermanno Olmi Italian Drama ONE FINE DAY (UN CERTO GIORNO) starring Brunetto Del Vita, Maria Crosignani, Vitaliano Damioli, Lidia Fuortes, Raffaele Modugno, Giovanna Ceresa, Renato Blandi, Ugo Adinolfi, Oliviero Andreasi, Eleonora Battistella and Bruno Bolzanella.

A middle-aged executive (Giovanna Ceresa) questions his values when he is given a promotion. He assumes the top position because his boss suffers a heart attack and another man dies in an auto accident. He has an affair with a fellow employee (Lidia Fuortes) before realizing his job and money are not as important as they once were. His good fortune has come from the resulting misfortune of others as he seeks to strengthen his relationships with friends and family.

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. Most of these posters were printed at the prestigious Westminster Press and Ward & Foxlow.

The poster is in very good unfolded (rolled) condition.