Iwan der Schreckliche — Wiener Uraufführung
Mihály Bíró, 1927
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 16% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyMihály Bíró's 1927 poster, roughly 126 by 187 centimetres, for the Vienna premiere of Krylya kholopa — retitled Iwan der Schreckliche for Austrian audiences. The retitling is the history here: a film about a serf's wings sold to Vienna under the name of a tyrant, because a tyrant was the more legible product. Distribution rewrote pictures at the border, and the poster is the receipt. Bíró's chain motif, carried over intact from his socialist campaign posters into a commercial cinema commission. A film renamed at the frontier, advertised by a man who had crossed one himself.
- Maker
- Mihály Bíró
- Date
- 1927
- Medium of the original
- One-sheet poster
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00832
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | 141 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 14% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | 95 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 12 in | 94 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | 70 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 18 in | 63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 20 in | 56 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | 47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 30 in | 38 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 31 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 28 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 1,700 x 1,149 px, srgb, sRGB
- Tone
- Darks 25, lights 209 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 11.64
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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