Vintage original 27.5 x 39.25 in. Swedish poster from the classic silent film drama, THE WEDDING MARCH, released in 1928 by Paramount Pictures and directed by Erich von Stroheim.
 
The design of this original release Swedish poster is virtually identical to that of the film's U.S. one-sheet poster and features a huge image of Erich von Stroheim (as Nicki, Prince Nickolas von Wildeliebe-Rauffenburg), wearing a military officer's uniform as he inserts a monocle over his right eye, which dominates the top half of the poster. The lower half depicts the film's wedding scene as Nicki marries Cecelia Schweisser (Zasu Pitts) while others watch their nuptials. Printed for the film's original release in Sweden in July 1929, it is unbacked and folded as originally issued. It is in very fine condition without any pinholes or stains and only some light edge and fold wear, very small tears, and areas of paper loss in the right half of the top border only.
 
*"The Wedding March is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film written and directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim. It also stars Fay Wray and ZaSu Pitts. Paramount Pictures forced von Stroheim to create two films from the footage, the second being The Honeymoon (eventually re-edited back into one film for a re-release). The Honeymoon is now considered lost, the only known copy destroyed in a fire in France in 1959.
 
Shooting began in June 1926 and lasted until Stroheim was finally shut down by Powers in January 1927. A reporter allowed onto the film's set reported Stroheim's perfectionism and indifference to time and money, and stated that Stroheim once told his cast and crew that if necessary they would film 24,000 takes of a scene until they got it right. Over the six months of filming, Stroheim shot over 200,000 feet of film.[8] The film's original budget was an estimated at $300,000 ($4,592,000 today). By the time Pat Powers shut down production, the budget had risen to $1,250,000 ($19,500,000 today.
 
Shooting began in June 1926 and lasted until Stroheim was finally shut down by Powers in January 1927. A reporter allowed onto the film's set reported Stroheim's perfectionism and indifference to time and money, and stated that Stroheim once told his cast and crew that if necessary they would film 24,000 takes of a scene until they got it right. Over the six months of filming, Stroheim shot over 200,000 feet of film. The film's original budget was an estimated at $300,000 ($4,592,000 today). By the time Pat Powers shut down production, the budget had risen to $1,250,000 ($19,500,000 today. 
 
In 1950, Henri Langlois of the Cinémathèque Française gave Stroheim the opportunity to re-edit The Wedding March and The Honeymoon from prints that he owned. Stroheim added sound effects and put certain scenes back in his original order. The last known copy of The Honeymoon was destroyed in a fire at Cinémathèque Française on July 10, 1959. Langlois claimed that the film had "died voluntarily."
 
The reputation of The Wedding March began to grow after Stroheim's death. Langlois presented the film at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1965, calling it a film "like a torso without a head." The film was screened at the 3rd New York Film Festival, where it was mostly received favorably. However, Bosley Crowther called it "disappointing". It was screened at the Lincoln Center again in 1970 and received a standing ovation."
*(source: Wikipedia)
 
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