Tajms Skver – Times Square Movie Poster, Yugoslavia, 1981
21 November, 2017Sean0 Comments1 category
Budva is in what is now Montenegro, and in 1981 Zeta Film imported Times Square for the Yugoslavian film market. I don’t know when it opened or how well it did, or if it was subtitled in Serbian. All I know about it is that there was this poster, which replicates the UK poster. It’s a reproduction of the Cummins painting, losing a lot of detail and the artist’s signature, but at least it’s not a redrawing of it like the Belgian poster seems to have been. This was definitely a legitimate release. I have my doubts abut Belgium.
Rȇžija:
ALAN MOYLE
TIM CURRY
TRINI ALVARADO
ROBIN JOHNSON
AMERIČKI FILM kolor
TAJMS SKVER
TIMES SQUARE
ZETA FILM
ZF
BUDVA
EMI
Tajms Skver
Yugoslavia : poster : AAT ID: 300027221 : 68.6 x 47.5 cm. : 1981 (work);
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1080 x 744 px, 96 dpi, 424 kb (image)
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