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Natur und Liebe (literally translates to "Nature and Love"), the 1927 Wolfram Junghans, Ulrich K.T. Schultz & Willi Achsel German silent origin-of-the-species fantasy science fiction (sci-fi) evolution documentary (an incredibly ambitious movie, showing the entire evolution of life on the planet Earth, beginning with single cell organisms, and continuing through the ages, showing both animal and plant evolution, with a long section on the origin of man, showing him descending from apes into an ape-like creature, and then on to present day man, with a brief section about what might be coming in the future!) featuring Lisa Benedikt, Siegfried Dietrich, Werner Kahle, Fr. Peach, and Herr Radotzky. Note that this movie is virtually forgotten today, but it certainly is remarkable for its time (it was made just two years after the legendary "Scopes Trial", and in 1927, the evolution of the species was far from accepted universally!), and deserves to be rediscovered! Not only does the section about man descending into apes, sound a lot like the opening section of "2001" (we wonder if Stanley Kubrick saw this movie!), but it was written by Nicholas Kaufmann, who earlier had written "Wege zu Kraft und Schonheit - Ein Film uber moderne Korperkultur" (released in other English-speaking countries as "Ways to Strength and Beauty"), which included a very young Leni Riefenstahl in its cast, and also had nudity in it! It appears this movie was never released in the U.S. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here.
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Important Added Info: Note that this is a remarkable poster! It is from 1928 and from Austria, and very few pre-World War II Austrian or German posters survive, due to the huge paper shortages in those countries at that time. Prior to being consigned this poster, we had only auctioned a single German lobby card, and no other movie paper from it of any kind. This poster has information at the bottom about the premiere of it at a specific Austrian theater, so there could not have been many of them made at all, and it is likely the only surviving example (it is printed with a really cool gold metallic ink in the gold area, and it was surely expensive to do, which makes sense that it was just created for the premiere). The great art on the poster is signed, but we can't read the signature. If anyone knows more about this movie or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. The person who owned this poster stored it rolled. We could re-fold it on the original folds, but that seems very foolish to us, since the folds have greatly diminished over the years. We will send it rolled to the new owner, and it will need to be sent in a tube that is approximately 40" wide. Also note that this poster contains nudity, so we have placed a white bar over those areas, for those who are bothered by such images. Of course, the actual poster does not have those white bars! Also note that this Austrian poster was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. It measures 37 1/2" x 73" [95 x 185 cm], which is an odd size. Since it resembles a U.S. three-sheet in shape (including being printed in two pieces, one large and one small), one might be tempted to call it a "three-sheet", but we doubt it was called that in Austria, so we are simply calling it an Austrian 38x73 poster.

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