The Chess Players 1977 UK Quad Academy Cinema Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Vratislav Seccik An extremely rare first-year-of-release (in

An extremely rare first-year-of-release (in Poland) poster

Light wear on edges in parts of poster

Wonderfully  striking graphics featuring the main man himself alongside the film's star Cary Grant

now linen-backed with just light touch-up

The Chess Players 1977 UK Quad Academy Cinema Film Poster, Peter Strausfeld Vratislav Seccik An extremely rare first-year-of-release (in1970s Academy Cinema film poster for Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players). Fab design by Peter Strausfeld. Strausfeld, born in Cologne, came to England in 1938. Whilst interned on the Isle of Man during the Second World War, he developed a close friendship with fellow internee George Hoellering. In 1947 Hoellering became the director of Londons pre eminent art house, The Academy Cinema, on Oxford Street and, disliking the studio