CATHERINE DENEUVE Original POLISH Poster MAYERLING 1968

Great ORIGINAL Polish Poster measuring 23” x 32” featuring off beat art quite different than the American Movie Poster, printed on Kraft Paper, which is what POLISH film posters are known for, unique art and colors on Kraft Paper. This Poster was to promote the 1968 romantic drama,Mayerling Director:Terence YoungBased on the novel by Claude Anet & Michel Arnold Splendid acting, sets, script. Wonderful movie. This romantic tragedy concerns the Archduke Rudolf (Omar Sharif) and his mistress, the Baroness Maria Vetsera (Catherine Deneuve), and their untimely demise at Mayerling, the sight of the Austrian royal family's hunting lodge. Rudolf verbally spars with his father Emperor Franz-Josef (James Mason) about wanting to implement progressive policies for his country. Ava Gardner plays his mother Empress Elizabeth. Rudolf also contends with the fallout from a loveless marriage with Princess Stephanie (Andrea Parisy). Respectful of the centuries-old Hapsburg family rule over Austria, Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that will not realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales (James Robertson-Justice), later to become Britain's King Edward VII, provides the only comic relief with his dialogue. The deaths remain a mystery, but director Terence Young suggests the two lovers made a suicide pact when they decided they could not live in a world without love where the prospects for peace were dubious at best. The entire cast included: Omar Sharif... Archduke RudolfCatherine Deneuve... Maria VetseraJames Mason... Emperor Franz-JosefAva Gardner... Empress ElizabethJames Robertson Justice... Prince of WalesGeneviève Page... Countess Larish (as Genevieve Page)Andréa Parisy... Princess Stephanie (as Andrea Parisy)Ivan Desny... Count HoyosMaurice Teynac... Moritz SzepsMony Dalmès... Baroness Vetsera (as Mony Dalmes)Moustache... BratfischFabienne Dali... Mizzi KasparRoger Pigaut... Count KarolyiBernard La Jarrige... Loschek (as Bernard Lajarrige)Véronique Vendell... Lisl Stockau (as Veronique Vendell)POSTER has an UNUSUAL images much different than the American version. It has bright vivid colors. It's on thin kraft paper, they usually tear, it's the nature of the beast.It has some tinyedgewear especiallyslight creases. Amazing it was saved over 40 years old! Sold as Is, because of low openingwould look great framed!MORE INFO ON CATHERINE DENEUVE: Catherine Deneuve was born in 1943, in Paris, France. Her parents were actors. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was a teenager and continued with small parts in minor films, until Roger Vadim gave her a meatier part in Vice et la vertu, Le (1963). But her breakthrough came with the excellent musical Parapluies de Cherbourg, Les (1964) in which she gave an unforgettable performance as a romantic middle-class girl who falls in love with a young soldier but gets imprisoned in a loveless marriage with another man; the director was the gifted Jacques Demy who also cast Deneuve in the less successful Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les (1967). She then played a schizophrenic killer in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) and a married woman who works as a part-time prostitute every afternoon in Luis Buñuel's masterpiece Belle de jour (1967). She also worked with Buñuel in Tristana (1970) and gave a great performance for François Truffaut in Sirène du Mississipi, La (1969), a kind of apotheosis of her "frigid femme fatale" persona. In the 1970s, she didn't find parts of that caliber, but her magnificent work in Truffaut's Dernier métro, Le (1980) as a stage actress in Nazi-occupied Paris revived her career. She was also very good in the recent epic drama Indochine (1992) for which she earned her first Academy Award Nominaton (Best Actress). Although the elegant and always radiant Deneuve has never appeared on stage, she is universally hailed as one of the "grandes dames" of French cinema, joining a list that includes such illustrious talents as Simone Signoret, Jeanne Moreau, Isabelle Huppert, and the younger Juliette Binoche.MORE INFO ON ON OMAR SHARIF: Omar Sharif is an Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films. He has acted in Egyptian, French, and English language feature films. Sharif is most famous for his roles in Doctor Zhivago, Funny Girl and Lawrence of Arabia. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won a Golden Globe.Sharif was born Michel Demitri Chalhoub (also occasionally spelled as Michel Shalhoub) in Alexandria, Egypt, the son of Claire (née Saada) and Joseph Chalhoub. His parents were Lebanese-Syrian Christians. Sharif graduated from Alexandria's Victoria College, then from Cairo University with a degree in mathematics and physics. Afterwards, he worked with his father in the lumber business.Omar Sharif In 1953, Sharif began his acting career with a role in the Egyptian film, Sira` Fi al-Wadi, (English, The Blazing Sun or Struggle in the Valley or Fight in the Valley). Numerous Egyptian productions followed. He starred with his wife Egyptian actress Faten Hamama in several movies as romantic leads. Others include Ayyamna el helwa (Our Best Days, 1955), La anam (I Don't Sleep, 1958), Sayedat el kasr (Lady of the Castle, 1959) and the Anna Karenina-adaptation Nahr el hub (The River of Love 1961).Sharif's first English language film was Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 where he played the role of Sherif Ali. This performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, Most Promising Newcomer award and worldwide fame as the world's leading Arabic actor.[citation needed] Sharif played the title role in the 1965 film Doctor Zhivago by David Lean. His decision to star in William Wyler's Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand reportedly angered Egypt's government due to Streisand's support for the state of Israel.After a decade with infrequent screen work, in 2003 he received acclaim for his role in the French-language film adaptation of the novel Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran as a Muslim Turkish merchant who becomes a father figure for a Jewish boy.In November 2005, he was given a medal by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in recognition of his significant contributions to world film and cultural diversity. The medal—which is handed out very infrequently—is named after Russian director Sergei Eisenstein and can only be given out a total of 25 times by Russia's Mosfilm.Sharif converted to Islam from Christianity and married renowned Muslim Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, in 1955 and took the name Omar al-Sharif. The marriage lasted almost 3 years and ended in 1958, producing one child Tarek Sharif (b. 1957), who appeared in Doctor Zhivago as Yuri at the age of 8.Sharif is fluent in Arabic, English, Greek, and French. He also speaks some Italian, Spanish and Turkish.In a 2002 interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Omar Sharif stated that he and his son Tarek are atheists. Tarek was married three times; first to a Jewish woman from Montreal, then to a Catholic Czech woman, and ultimately to a Muslim woman from Egypt. Sharif became very close friends with Peter O'Toole during the making of Lawrence of Arabia. They have appeared in several other films together and remain close friends. He is also good friends with Egyptologist Zahi Hawass.Sharif underwent a triple bypass surgery in 1992, and suffered a mild heart attack in 1994. Until his bypass, Sharif smoked 50 cigarettes a day; after the surgery, he quit easily.On August 5, 2003, he received a one-month suspended prison sentence for striking a police officer in a suburban Parisian casino in July. He was also fined $1700 and ordered to pay the officer $340 in damages. (He had insulted and then head-butted the Pontoise policeman, who tried to intervene in an argument between the actor and a roulette croupier.)[citation needed] On February 13, 2007 Sharif was "found guilty of assaulting a Beverly Hills parking lot attendant and breaking his nose".According to The Middle East Media Research Institute, Omar Sharif said the "East" will never have a democracy because people like him "prefer to go to the neighborhood sheikh, instead of Democracy." MEMRI posted an interview of Sharif that aired on the Al-Hayat TV network on June 8, 2008. In the interview, Sharif reportedly blasted U.S. policy in Iraq and said Americans are ignorant. Sharif also claimed to have spoken with U.S President, George W. Bush before the beginning of the Iraq War and told him that Arabs are not like regular people and that Arab nations are made up of sects resistant to becoming democratized.Actor and friend Tom Courtenay revealed, whilst being interviewed for the 19 July 2008 edition of BBC Radio's Test Match Special, that Omar supports Hull City and in the 1970s would telephone their automated scoreline from his home in Paris for score updates.Sharif, once among the world's best known contract bridge players, co-wrote a syndicated newspaper bridge column for the Chicago Tribune for several years. He is also both author and co-author of several books on bridge and has licensed his name to a bridge computer game; initially released in a DOS version in 1992, Omar Sharif Bridge is still sold in Windows and "mobile platform" versions. For a number of years his partner at international tournaments was American football coach Tommy Prothro.Sharif has also been a regular in casinos in France, where he once assaulted a casino employee after losing thousands of dollars on a single roulette bet.In 2006 Sharif declared both pastimes as ended when he was asked if he still played bridge: "I've stopped altogether. I decided I didn't want to be a slave to any passion any more except for my work. I had too many passions, bridge, horses, gambling. I want to live a different kind of life, be with my family more because I didn't give them enough time."Winning buyder agrees