Road to Life

[Nickolai Ekk (director); Anton Makarenko (original novel)]. El Camino de la vida. [Putyovka v zhizn or Road to Life]. [No place, but printed in Barcelona]: Pax Film, [circa 1936]. Original herald (programa) for a Catalan screening at Cinema Casa del Poble of the first Soviet all-talking film, on a program that includes Eterns Rivals (presumably the Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Rival (Disney, 1936)) and La Badia Dels Tigres [Tiger Bay] (Wyndham Productions, 1934), an English Anna May-Wong vehicle; advertising the following week's screening Txepaiev [Chapaev] (Lenfilm, 1934), another Soviet film. Folio (14 x 10.375 inches; 357 x 263 mm.). Designed by Renav. Single sheet, printed both sides, the recto in black, red and brownish-yellow; folded horizontally. Edges with some trivial wear and very soft creasing, most visible along the upper edge, single tiny closed tear; faint smudging from printing process on the verso. Near fine. Rare. "To this day, Ekk's place in film history is secured