Acc. № 263 · Archive reference image
Lost Cinema № 263
They Live — Soviet Release
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A recovered USSR cinema advertisement for John Carpenter's They Live, distributed through Soviet state theaters in an alternate 1980s distribution agreement. The poster presents the film's central conceit—the sunglasses revealing hidden alien presence—in Soviet agitprop visual language, complete with Cyrillic exhortation and official pricing. A rare artifact documenting a geopolitical fiction in which American cult science fiction reached Soviet audiences through official channels rather than bootleg circulation.
Catalogued, not yet released. This artifact will become available to acquire soon.
One artifact. One owner. On acquisition it is permanently retired from the archive. You receive the high-resolution file and a signed certificate of exclusivity.
About the certificate →Print specification
2752 × 1536 px · 4.2 MP · landscape
- Section
- Lost Cinema
- Style
- Soviet agitprop poster, photomontage, cold war era
- Mood
- conspiratorial, dystopian, uncanny
- Palette
- cream, black, orange, flesh tone
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