Original Russian film title (on the poster). Original (transliteration) film title. English released film title. THE WRESTLER AND THE CLOWN. BORIS BARNET & KONSTANTIN YUDIN. IN: 28 ¾ x 41 = CM: 73 x 104. FOLDED IN THE MIDDLE, VERY GOOD. Original vintage Soviet very large format movie poster from the first release of the movie in Soviet Union. 9 December 1957 for the film. The Wrestler and the Clown. Soviet color feature film shot at the Mosfilm studio in 1957. Director Konstantin Yudin began work on the film. After his sudden death during filming, the picture was completed by Boris Barnet. The film reflects real events from the life of wrestler Ivan Poddubny and clown trainer Anatoly Durov. Odessa at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. Loader and amateur wrestler Ivan Poddubny comes to the circus and meets clown trainer Anatoly Durov. Artists have to go through trials and humiliation. The manager of the circus mercilessly exploits the artists who are bound by a slave contract. The talent and hard work of Poddubny and Durov allows them to go beyond the provincial circus and make an international career. As a result, Poddubny, having defeated the Frenchman Raoul le Boucher in the final, becomes the winner of the world championship in wrestling, which was held in Paris. He was born in 1915 in Moscow into a family of musicians. His father, Karaim Iosif Savelyevich Shamash, a violinist, played at the Evpatoria Theater. Mother – Maria Shamash, pianist. As a child he showed interest in drawing. Later, for three years, he took painting and drawing lessons from the famous artist RR Falk. After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he was mobilized. He served in the art workshop of the Red Army House. Title – foreman, position – artist. He worked on the design of visual agitation for parts of the front in the air defense forces, in particular, on the illustrations to the book “Memoir of Moscow”, intended for the air defense units of the capital. From 1946 he worked as a poster artist in the Reklamfilm workshop. Author of about 500 movie posters, including films by A. Romm (“Pomegranate Bracelet”), I. Heifitz (“Lady with a Dog”), M. Kalatozov (“Faithful Friends”), S. Bondarchuk (“War and Peace”) , etc. Shamash’s works were exhibited at all-Union and international exhibitions. At the same time he was a journalist. He was a member of the MOSH, the Union of Journalists and the Union of Cinematographers of the USSR. He also collaborated with the State Joint Stock Company “Intourist”. He died in 1987. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog.