hell's army_film poster
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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.
after a connversation with the film's director richard rowley, we set about presenting to him and his team a series of directions the poster could take. they selected the one you see here, itself a visual play on the film's over-arching narrative.
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.