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the film takes the form of a piece of investigative journalism about the rise and fall of yevgeny prigozhin, founder of the illegal, russian state-funded, ultraviolent, private militia company, the wagner group. the narrative follows a russian journalist, katya, who reveals the groups' existence after several of her colleagues are murdered by them. the film is delivered in a particularly well crafted, cinematic and sympathetic fashion, and we were immediately interested in making a poster to support it.

caspar made the poster in berlin with a laptop and a photograph richard provided. the poster is an homage to and an evolution of the fantastic works of cuban postermaker, luis vega de castro, and scottish poet, edwin morgan. the russian text was translated to fit the concept by mina munarova.

we presented a series of directions the poster could take and lizi and myriam chose this one. to make the poster caspar first took a photo of jessica hecht's smiling face and made a piece of ascii art out of it. he then placed different sized grave stones, tree stumps or tufts of grass—by hand—over each corresponding character in the ascii art. 

you can watch the film here.

needless to say the title of this film does not prepare you for what this film has to offer. we had to watch it three times in a row to fully digest it, and even then were not sure if we could make a poster for it. however some days later it occurred to us that we were perhaps the only people who should make the poster for this film, and we called emily to say that.