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Lothar and Eva Just Pressbook Covers

The Lothar and Eva Just Film Stills Collection contains over 800,000 film stills, pressbooks and other ephemera originally amassed by Lothar Just, a Munich-based film publicist. This exhibit presents some of the striking covers of film pressbooks, sent to theaters and other outlets by the distributor as part of a film's advertising campaign. Most in this selection are either in German or their original language.

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    Blanche Fury, UK, 1948, directed by Marc Allégret.

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    The River, US/France/UK/India, 1951, directed by Jean Renoir.

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    Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai), Japan, 1954, directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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    The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin), Japan, 1958, directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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    Fires on the Plain (Nobi), Japan, 1959, directed by Kon Ichikawa.
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    Girl with a Suitcase (La ragazza con la valigia), 1961, directed by Valerio Zurlini.

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    Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo), Soviet Union, 1962, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

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    The Big City (Mahanagar), India, 1963, directed by Satyajit Ray.

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    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg), France, 1964, directed by Jacques Demi.

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    Codes (Szyfry), Poland, 1966, directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has.

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    Shark!, US, 1969, directed by Samuel Fuller.

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    Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divu), Czechoslovakia, 1970, directed by Jaromil Jires.

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    AKA The Hourglass Sanatorium ((Sanatorium pod klepsydra), Poland, 1973, Wojciech Jerzy Has.

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    The Holy Office (El santo oficio), Mexico, 1974, directed by Arturo Ripstein.

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    La noche de la furia, 1974, directed by Carlos Aured.

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    Loulou , France, 1980, directed by Maurice Pialat.

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    Nostalghia, Italy/Soviet Union, 1983, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

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    L'argent, France, 1983, directed by Robert Bresson.

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    Ni luo he nu er, Taiwan, 1987, directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

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    An Enemy of the People (Ganashatru), India, 1989, directed by Satyajit Ray.

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    The Gang of Four (La bande des quatre), France/Switzerland, 1989, directed by Jacques Rivette.

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    Archangel, Canada, 1990, directed by Guy Maddin.

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    Metropolitan, US, 1990, directed by Whit Stillman.

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    Flowers of Shanghai (Hai shang hua), Taiwan/Japan, 1998, directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien.