Poster Advertising the Italian Film The Wandering Jew – France, 1948

Le Juif Errant [The Wandering Jew], poster advertising the Italian film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini with the actors Vittorio Gassmann and Valentina Cortese. Paris, [1948]. French.
Poster in French advertising an Italian film, originally title L'Ebreo Errante. The film is about Mathew, a Jew who withholds help from Jesus and is sentenced to eternal wandering. The film jumps to 1940 and Mathew appears as a wealthy Jewish banker in Paris. He is able to flee from the Nazis, however, he prefers to share the fate of his Jewish brethren and is sent to a concentration camp in Germany. He manages to organize an uprising and flee the camp but upon hearing that if he does not return, the Nazis will murder one hundred Jews, he decided to return and is finally forgiven for his sin.
59.5X79 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Tears to edges and to folding creases. The poster linen-backed for display and preservation. The edges of the linen fabric are slightly unraveled.