The Chess Players 1977 UK Quad Academy Cinema Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Vratislav Seccik 26 x 38 inches and

26 x 38 inches and will be sent rolled (unframed)

chock-full with individual personality

he designed over 160 film posters and over 600 other drafts and illustrations

Light wear on edges in parts of poster

but now professionally linen-backed with light touch-up to folds

The Chess Players 1977 UK Quad Academy Cinema Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Vratislav Seccik 26 x 38 inches and1970s Academy Cinema film poster for Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players). Fab design by Peter Strausfeld. Strausfeld, born in Cologne, came to England in 1938. Whilst interned on the Isle of Man during the Second World War, he developed a close friendship with fellow internee George Hoellering. In 1947 Hoellering became the director of Londons pre eminent art house, The Academy Cinema, on Oxford Street and, disliking the studio