Title: Agent No. 1 / Karol Strasburger
Author: Bogdan Żochowski
Item description:
Notes: The author of the poster is Bohdan Zochowski, also the author of two basic A1 format posters for this film kept in the same manner. Poster of very small A5 format.
Note: the catalogs of the social life documents departments of Polish academic libraries qualify this type of ephemeral print unequivocally as posters practically regardless of dimensions (popularly, though incorrectly, this type of object is referred to as mini- posters, flyers or even window stickers).
Polish film 1971; war thriller drama.
Directed by: Zbigniew Kuźmiński. Screenplay: Aleksander Scibor-Rylski, based on the novel by Stanislaw Strumph-Wojtkiewicz. Music: Andrzej Korzyński. Cinematography: Wieslaw Rutowicz. Set design: Adam Nowakowski. Costumes: Renata Vlasov.
Actors: Karol Strasburger, Monika Solubianka, Barbara Bargiełowska, Aleksander Iwaniec, Józef Para, Zdzisław Tobiasz, Piotr Fronczewski.
The story of the activities of a Polish-born agent of British intelligence in Greece, Jerzy Ivanov-Szajnowicz, during World War II.
About the author: Bohdan (Bogdan) Żochowski (10.08.1936 Warsaw - 2006) painter, graphic artist, poster designer. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Warsaw in 1962 with a degree in painting. He practiced easel painting, printmaking and exhibition design. From 1964 he was art editor of the magazine "Ty i Ja"; see SAP 1970 p. 681.
Additional information:
Condition of Preservation:
Item in quite nice condition, very faint trace of secondary horizontal folding, slightly damaged lower and upper margins of the poster with slight tears
Grading of state of preservation:
- perfect condition: (6) no flaws, no signs of use, like new
- very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very slight defects, almost like new (unused)
- nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
- quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
- more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), fairly insignificant, not very significant defects
- at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
- good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
- less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
- more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
- at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), quite poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
- Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major defects in the card, basically destruct
The evaluation of the state of preservation and some other elements of the description have some characteristics of subjectivity, but we make them with our best knowledge and the greatest possible reliability, if in doubt, please refer to the scan of the object or contact us.
