A collage of photos from the Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back on a superposter in Bravo of 22 January 1981.
Star Wars
Star Wars 1977
Over three pages Bravo introduces the new-fangled sci-fi movie Star Wars, which will be released in German cinemas as Krieg der Sterne only in February 1978.
Mark Hamill & Carrie Fisher 1978
Star Wars stars Mark Hamill & Carrie Fisher on the back-page poster of Bravo of 18 May 1978. The caption says that a Star Wars sequel is being filmed.
Star Wars 1977
A double-page spread on the new-fangled Star Wars film, a science fiction movie apparently, in Bravo of 10 November 1977
Mark Hamill 1978
Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker on a super-poster in Bravo of 23 February 1978. Hamill featured here less than a couple of weeks ago on as poster from 1981.
Carrie Fisher & Mark Hamill 1978
Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher from Star Wars on a single page poster in Bravo of 18 May 1978. The caption announces that Luke Skywalker and Princess Leila would be filming the sequel to the mega-hit film.
Mark Hamill 1980
For this week we’ll cover posters from Bravo issues that were current on Christmas Day in that week.
Here’s actor Mark Hamil on a poster from Bravo of 17 December 1980. The Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back (featured here) was a big thing at the time. I gather there is a new Star Wars movie out in which it is revealed that Darth Vader is not Luke’s father after all.
Star Wars 1981
A photo collage of the second Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back, in Bravo of 22 January 1981.
The German title was a literal translation, Das Imperium schlägt zurück. Which is a good thing; sometimes German movie titles of American films were…strange. Same year, the snappy Stripes became Ich glaub’, mich knutscht ein Elch (“I think I’m being smooched by a moose”), which was a bit of a colloquial phrase at the time, and there is a scene with a moose in the regrettable second half of the movie, but still…
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