Polish Movie Posters

On Letterboxd, if you pay for the top subscription you can choose the poster that shows up when people read your review. I was browsing through Letterboxd one day when I found a very strange poster for a movie. I performed a reverse image search and found this very delightful piece of movie history. For some reason, it seemed like the Polish had very different sensibilities when it came to movie poster design. Your traditional Hollywood poster tends to blend into each other. A mishmash of floating heads, oranges and blues, all of them trying their best to look cool for the camera. Polish film posters, on the other hand, are weirdly abstract. A heavy focus is placed on representing thematic elements and the symbols behind the film rather than depicting any scene or even the cast of the film. They tend to be disturbing with very horrific imagery or very symbolic and abstract. Here's the Polish poster for Return Of The Jedi: I dove deeper into why this happened. Why did an art movement…