This Blog Rules has pictures of four promotional posters for the censored and modified Star Wars movies released in the Soviet Union. They look surreal, like something out of Brazil rather than the plot of Star Wars. Would any Russian-speaking Neatoramanaut care to translate?
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Zavatone
I find it interesting that besides some portrayal of outer space, the images have just about nothing to do with the content of the movie and often include many things that were never in the movie(s). Star Wars is not always known for its cowboy riding horses and metal robots with cat teeth.
Andrei
It says “Star Wars” in big letters, and it says “galactic western. made in the USA.”.
alaskalainen
And underneath ‘Star Wars’ it says “Galactic Western.”
In the other posters, it is also described as a “Cosmic Western.”
Aside:
For the perfect intersection of “soviet” and “western”, though, you want to watch this film from Ukrainian comedy troupe “Maski”, called ‘Maski in the Wild East’ (consider Soviet geography). It’s several episodes strung together, and although they don’t rely on dialogue, you should just watch the scene starting at 5:36 to get an idea of it.
http://rutube.ru/tracks/100946.html?v=702c31a858e3033108d82876cb35a30f
(And the final brawl scene starts around 41:00, for a view of the slapstick humor at which Maski excel)
Greg.Shilling
Yes, it does say “star wars.” Interestingly enough, they’re billing the film as a “galactic western” (galakticheski vestern) which explains the cowboy imagery…sort of.
Felipe Venancio
“They look surreal, like something out of Brazil(…)”. Well, I live in Brazil and never ever seen anything like that. The cowboy one is very cool though.
George
I think the poster means “Brazil” as in the 1985 movie from Terry Gilliam starring Jonathan Pryce. And yes, they do look like they would fit in to the movie “Brazil”.
Video Game Dork
its the newspaper that ‘Brazils’ it for me.
I saw line a week or so ago with about 50 movie posters with similar strangeness…
http://wellmedicated.com/inspiration/50-incredible-film-posters-from-p oland/
People on the forum were speculating that perhaps they did this to avoid paying for image copyrights for the actual posters, but i dont know how true that is.
iliah
In soviet union (may be now too) every movie theater had an artist to draw posters and he did that usually unsober without even watching a movie 
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