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The unique teaser posters for Ealing’s post-war émigré drama Frieda
['Lisa Kerrigan', 'Brogan Morris', 'Steven Foxon']
BFI | Features and reviews
Based on a 1946 play by Ronald Millar, Frieda was one of the earliest British films to explore the post-war transition to peace and extremely topical and painful questions around guilt, culpability and forgiveness.
It stars David Farrar as a schoolmaster-turned-RAF officer who marries the German nurse (Mai Zetterling) who saved his life.
This debate is drawn out through this series of teaser posters which take the form of a vox pop canvassing a range of (fictional) opinions.
The teasers are developed from the film’s official release poster and create a holistic campaign, designed and masterminded by Ealing’s advertising director S. John Woods.
For S. John Woods, a poster had three sequential purposes: “to attract attention, to arouse interest, and [to] influence subsequent action”.
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