A Treasury of Rare and Weird Star

Wars Posters From Around the

World
Vincze Miklós
Filed to: STAR WARS 2/13/14 6:26pm

Nothing could be more familiar than the original Star Wars poster,
featuring Darth's head looming over our light saber-wielding
heroes. But that poster has gone through a lot of mutations in its
lifetime, as the movie journeyed across the globe. Here are some of
the weirdest and most obscure Star Wars posters in existence.

The very first Star Wars poster by Brothers Hildebrandt,

1976, before the film was introduced
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(via Posterwire)

A New Hope, Italy, 1977, by Michelangelo Papuzza

 (via Space 1970)
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A New Hope, Romania, 1977

 (via gk)

A New Hope, Israel, 1977

(via eBay)
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A New Hope, Japan, 1977

 (via Star Wars Aficionado)
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A New Hope, US, 1977, Drew Struzan

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(via Posterwire)
A New Hope, Poland, 1978, by Jakub Erol

(via eBay)
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A New Hope, Hungary, 1979, by András Felvidéki

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(via Star Wars Klub)

A New Hope, Hungary, 1979, by Tibor Helényi

(via Star Wars Klub)
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The Empire Strikes Back, Hong Kong, 1980

(via Retro-Futurism)
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The Empire Strikes Back, France, 1980

(via Mauvais-Genres)
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The Empire Strikes Back, Japan, 1980

 (via Classic Star Wars)

The Empire Strikes Back, Japan, 1980, Noriyoshi Ohrai

 (via Filmonpaper)

The Empire Strikes Back, Turkey, 1980

 (via Sci-Fi Movie Posters)
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The Empire Strikes Back, Hong Kong, 1980

(via Cinemasterpieces)
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The Empire Strikes Back, Germany, 1980

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(via The Star Wars Trilogy)

The Empire Strikes Back, Romania, 1981

 (via gk)
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The Empire Strikes Back, Hungary, 1982, by Tibor
Helényi

(via Star Wars Klub)

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The Empire Strikes Back, Poland, 1982, Jakub Erol

(via Polishposter)

The Empire Strikes Back, Poland, 1983, Miroslaw

Lakomski
(via Polishposter)
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Return of the Jedi, Hungary, 1984, by Tibor

Helényi
(via Star Wars Klub)
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Return of the Jedi, Turkey, 1983

 (via Sci-Fi Movie Posters)
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Return of the Jedi, Poland, 1984, Witold Dybowski

 (via Rowsdowr)
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Russia, 1990, by Yury Bokser and Alexander Chantsev

(via eBay)
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Russia, 1990, by Yury Bokser and Alexander Chantsev

(via Anywhen)

Russia, 1990, by Yury Bokser and Alexander Chantsev

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(via Mean Sheets)

Russia, 1990, by Yury Bokser and Alexander Chantsev

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(via Heritage Auctions)

Vincze Miklós’s Discussions All replies

anhalibut Vincze Miklós

2/13/14 6:30pm

I love the posters from Hungary.

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Annalee Newitz anhalibut

2/13/14 6:35pm

Me too. I think Miklós is trying to prove that

Hungary makes the best science fiction movie 19

posters. And he's pretty much convinced me.

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99Telep☺dpr☹blems anhalibut
2/13/14 6:50pm

I want to see the movie they saw!

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Holy shit, those are amazing.

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nullterm anhalibut
2/13/14 6:52pm

Hungary is tripping balls in the poster dept, and

it's awesome. 10

I'd love to see Hungarian Star Wars if it was based

on those poster designs.

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jesterspawn anhalibut
2/13/14 7:20pm

I described the Hungarian posters to a friend

thusly: "It's like the guy watched the film once 9
and then got super high and painted everything
from memory."

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jb_z anhalibut
2/13/14 7:50pm

The Darth Vader one from Hungary looks

awesome!!! 4

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GGHJ anhalibut
2/13/14 10:34pm

I was gonna say, you can always spot the ones

from Hungary right off, because they're awesome. 5

And by 'awesome' of course I mean 'new desktop

backgrounds', thanks Vincze!

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Klág Dávid 99Telep☺dpr☹blems

2/14/14 4:50am

Tibor Helényi, the designer of the Hungarian Star

Wars posters died this week. There was an urban 10

legend going around for years, that he's never

seen any of the SW films before painting the
posters. He denied this in the last interview he
did, and said that he just enjoyed adding a couple
of creatures to the already existing universe of
Lucas.

These are the posters he did for Close Encounters

and RoboCop:
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99Telep☺dpr☹blems Klág Dávid

2/14/14 4:54am

Wow. Thank you for this info. He was an amazing

artist. 1

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