Stunts (1977) Czechoslovak movie poster

Czechoslovak poster for Stunts, also released as The Deadly Game and known in Czech as Povolání kaskadér (“Occupation: stuntman”), an American thriller directed by Mark L. Lester, starring Robert Forster and Fiona Lewis.

The illustration of a stuntman on fire is executed in only three colors, and acquires an almost impressionist quality. It’s the work of Czech painter, graphic artist, and musician Jan Antonín Pacák (1941–2007). For the typography, he used a formula that was popular in Czechoslovak poster design: an attention-grabbing display typeface found in catalogs by Western manufacturers like Letraset, Mecanorma or ITC – here Yagi Link Double – with added monolinear diacritical marks, paired with a straightforward typeface for the smaller bits, here Maršův Grotesk, a domestic design that sits somewhere between Futura and Gill Sans.