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Auction History Result 2w238 DER HERR DER WELT linen French 1p '34 directed by Harry Piel, important early sci-fi & robots Date Sold 6/16/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 46 1/2" x 61 3/4") (Learn More) Der Herr der Welt (literally translates to "Master of the World"), the 1934 Harry Piel German science fiction (sci-fi) robots-gone-wild thriller (about a mad assistant to a scientist who develops a robot which includes a death ray, and the robot kills the scientist, and the assistant makes thousands more robots, which are intended to take over the drudgery jobs, but which are soon killing massive numbers of people!) starring Walter Janssen, Sybille Schmitz, Aribert Wascher, Siegfried Scurenberg, Willy Schur, and Gustav Puttjer. Note that this movie was one of the first movies to feature robots, and it does so in a "Frankenstein of steel" kind of way, which is surprising, because Germany at this time was extremely favorable towards modern technology, which this movie was actively opposing! Note that this mostly forgotten important early German sci-fi movie is well known to many poster collectors, because legendary pioneer poster collector Steve Schapiro included an example of the original German poster in his classic book, "The Movie Poster Book", from 1979. The movie was apparently released in the U.S., but we have never seen any movie paper from that release, and original posters of any sort from this movie are extremely rare! Note that 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. 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. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The entire poster had darkened slightly. It had tiny paper loss at just a few crossfolds and a very few creases, scuffs, and tiny tears on parts of some foldlines. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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