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Auction History Result 1v069 IMMENSEE linen French one-panel poster '43 art of pretty Kristina Soderbaum by Poissonnie! Date Sold 8/28/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 45 3/4" x 62 3/4") (Learn More) Immensee, the 1943 Veit Harlan German romantic love triangle infidelity melodrama (based on the 1849 novella by Theodor Storm, which was one of Germany's best selling books ever; about an elderly man looking back on his life and remembering the girl he loved all his life, but she ended up marrying his best friend instead) starring Kristina Soderbaum (the wife of director Veit Harlan, and she starred in most of his movies after they were married), Carl Raddatz, Paul Klinger, Carola Toelle and Lina Lossen. The book this movie was based on had sold millions of copies, and the movie was incredibly successful, being seen by some 8 million people in 1943! Note that this movie is not on the "forbidden" list (even though it was directed by Veit Harlan, who directed "Jud Suss"), but it is thought to be a Nazi propaganda movie. Note that director Veit Harlan was one of the most infamous of the Nazi film directors, directing Jud Suss and many other virulent anti-Jewish Nazi movies during World War II. After the war, almost ALL of his movies were banned, not just the anti-Jewish ones, and he was put on trial for war crimes. But in 1950, after several trials, he was set free, and in 1951, he resumed making movies, making a dozen of them until his passing in 1964. Note that this is one of the few Veit Harlan movies that was not banned, likely because it was a non-political, non-controversial romantic melodrama. It was even shown in Sweden, Spain, and Portugal before the end of the war, but it was apparently never released in the U.S. or the U.K. That is somewhat surprising, given that the book the movie was based on sold many millions of copies over the century since it was first written, and it is a very powerful story (in the book, the elderly man looks back starting when he was a young boy, but to avoid having to use child actors, director Harlan started from when the lead characters were 18, and then artificially aged them). Perhaps there will be an American adaptation someday! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Poissonnie Important Added Info: Note that this German movie apparently was released in occupied France in 1943. We don't know how the French people reacted to German movies at that time! In France at that time, there was a huge paper shortage during World War II, and so they printed many of the movie posters at the time on the back of already printed posters (a practice pretty common in Belgium and France during World War II, when there were huge paper shortages). The poster offered here was printed on the back of another poster, and it shows through in various parts of the poster (mostly as a sort of light "ghosting"). See our image to better see exactly what bleed through there is. Condition: good to very good. The poster had creases, tears, and small areas of paper loss on parts of some foldlines and tiny paper loss at some crossfolds. There were some creases, pinholes, and tears in the borders. The poster was printed on the back of another poster , and there is some light bleed through from the writing and image on the back of the poster. It is most noticeable in the bottom title area where apparently the title from the back bleeds through to the front. The poster was pretty well backed, but the restorer left alone the bleed through described above. At some point after the poster was backed, it was roughly handled, and there are now creases in the left and right borders of the excess linen with a few creases in the left and right borders of the actual poster itself. They are most significant in the top left corner of the poster, extending into the "TO" of the "TOBIS" logo. I don't know if these creases can be removed without re-backing the poster, but they can certainly be minimized by a professional without re-backing the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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