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DER UNMOGLICHE HERR PITT DER UNMOGLICHE HERR PITT Belgian OR search current auctions Auction History Result 9h418 DER UNMOGLICHE HERR PITT Belgian '38 art of director & star Harry Piel & Hilde Weissner! Date Sold 2/22/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Belgian Movie Poster (measures 23 3/4" x 33 1/4" [60 x 84 cm]) (Learn More) Der unmogliche Herr Pitt, the 1938 Harry Piel German melodrama starring Harry Piel, Willi Schur, Leopold von Ledebur, Hilde Weissner, and Hans Junkermann. Note that star/director Harry Piel was a major figure in early cinema. He wrote and directed his first movie when he was just 20 years old in 1912, and he made several movies over the next three years, and then began acting in them as well! He made many movies over the next decades. In 1933, he joined the Nazi party and made movies for them. In 1934, he made Der Herr der Welt, a science fiction movie with robots, but he had actually used robots in a movie he made in 1915! At the end of World War II, he was sentenced to 6 months in jail and banned from the film industry for 5 years. In 1950, he started a new film company, but did not have much success, and he retired in 1953 and passed away in 1961. Unfortunately, almost all the negatives of his silent films were destroyed when Germany was bombed during World War II, so few of his films survive, and that, combined with his Nazi collaboration, has caused him to be largely forgotten, except by major film buffs. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a rare "pre-War" Belgian poster. Prior to World War II, Belgian posters were much larger than the ones from after the war, and they are extremely rare (because during WWII, there was a massive paper shortage in Belgium, and they took virtually every poster and map, and printed new posters on the backs of them!). Also note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: fair to good. The poster has become discolored and brittle with age and there is tattering and paper loss around the edges. There is a tax stamp at lower right and there are remnants of a snipe in the lower left edge of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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