Advertisement for film "Hinter der Maske". Colour lithograph after Klemke, 1960.

  • Klemke (Graphic designer), active approximately 1960.
Date:
1960?]
Reference:
573663i
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About this work

Description

Head of a worried man in a surgical mask, on a pink background. In the film, "Dr Philip Selwood, a surgeon at the Royal Graftondale Hospital", goes missing after an operation on a woman. She dies without recovering consciousness. The public demands an enquiry, but the head physician, Sir Arthur, who is Selwood's prospective father-in-law, wants to cover the matter up. The film shows the conflict between Selwood's professional and psychological situations

Publication/Creation

[East Germany] : VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, 1960?] (Erfurt : Druckerei Fortschritt)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 81.2 x 57.5 cm

Lettering

Hinter der Maske. VEB Progress-Film-Vertrieb. Klemke 60

Creator/production credits

Cast: Tony Britton, Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Carl Mohner and others. Director: Brian Desmond Hurst

Reference

Wellcome Collection 573663i

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Where to find it

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