eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8m032 DER VERLORENE SOHN linen German R1950s Trenker, bleak German view of U.S. in 1930s, WEM art! Date Sold 8/12/2018Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1950s) Re-Release Theatrical Linenbacked German "A1" Movie Poster (measures 23" x 33" [58 x 84 cm]) (Learn More) Der Verlorene Sohn (literally translates to "The Prodigal Son"), the 1934 Luis Trenker German/U.S. New York City Great Depression immigrant melodrama (about a German man who emigrates to New York City in 1934, and he sees how bleak America is, during the height of the Great Depression; obviously, director Trenker was creating a propaganda movie, showing Germans a very downbeat view of America, and the movie presented America in quite a different light than most Hollywood movies of that time) starring Maria Andergast, Luis Trenker, Paul Henkels, Eduard Kock, and Marian Marsh. Note that this movie was a co-production between the U.S. and Germany, and Universal Studios was the U.S. part of that. But we can find no sign that the movie was actually released in the U.S. (by Universal or anyone else), and it may be that once they saw the final product, they shelved the U.S. release. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that star/director Luis Trenker is a fascinating forgotten man in the history of film! He started out helping Arnold Fanck on his mountain movies. He became a filmmaker in the 1930s, making movies about how country life was better than city life, and the Nazis wanted him to make movies for them. He moved to Rome and made two documentaries there. After the war, he was accused of being a Fascist, but the charges were eventually dropped and he started making movies again, but before long, he only made documentaries and writing about mountains, his first love. He died at the age of 97 in 1990! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: WEM Important Added Info: Note that first release 1928 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single movie paper item from this movie until we received this 1950s re-release German poster, which is a "country of origin" poster for this partially German movie! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some tiny bits of paper loss in parts of some folds. It had multiple pinholes in the corners, with a stain in the bottom right corner of the image background (there may have been a snipe attached to that area). Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades
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