Behind the Poster

The Polish Poster School is as widely known around the world as the Polish Film School Beginning with the postWorld War II era the poster became a key tool for popular communication In Communist times the poster also offered colorful accents to an otherwise overwhelmingly gray public space Ironically during the 1950s 60s and 70s when several Polish graphic designers rose to worldwide prominence the advertising of films was not a necessity A frustrated and hopeless populace regularly relied on cinema for escape It was in that time of massive unrest that artists like Julian Pałka Jan Lenica Roman Cieślewicz and Henryk Tomaszewski created the most expressive and unique images of the form Marcin Latałłos lauded documentary film is a doublelayered construction telling both the story of the movement and in parallel following the footsteps of Ania a young designer who faces an extremely tricky challenge she must create a poster for the film itself