This 1990 Russian reworking of the Star Wars: A New Hope poster is a little different from the Western versions.
I'm assuming the object at the top is the Death Star but who's the handsome devil at the bottom of the frame?
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29Looks a bit like Jabba to me– Steven WoodCommented Feb 13, 2017 at 13:31
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8Early concept for Vader?– PeterCommented Feb 13, 2017 at 13:32
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4@Peter - Unlikely. This is the original concept for Vader unmasked and it was drawn years after A New Hope.– ValorumCommented Feb 13, 2017 at 13:34
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2Related, definitely not dupe : scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/152541/…– SkoobaCommented Feb 13, 2017 at 14:13
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3Definitely looks like Darkseid. No doubts in my mind.– Brevan EllefsenCommented Feb 13, 2017 at 19:27
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It may not be anyone... consider this other Russian poster for Star Wars.
This is quite literally a "space cowboy". I mean one could argue it is supposed to be a depiction of Han Solo, but how could you prove it?
Here is another for Return of the Jedi that I have no idea what is going on...
Consider the excerpt from the answer given by @user931:
At that time, local artists produced posters for foreign movies without any knowledge of the films, which led to some unique designs.
In the end I think you have to take the poster at face value, in that they are "generic" depictions of "space things".
This seems to be a trend with foreign movie posters from various countries...
Lost in Translation: 20 Baffling Foreign Movie Posters by Cracked.com
15 Wildly Misleading Movie Posters from Around the World by Cracked.com
14 Hilariously Inaccurate Foreign Posters for American Films by Cracked.com
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3With extra bits stuck to it, and a laser beam coming out of it.– ValorumCommented Feb 13, 2017 at 13:55
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8Also this Russian Star Wars poster depicting a cat with laser-hair Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 16:45
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9@Valorum I think the validity of gun comparisons is reduced by the cowboy hat and the horse. Maybe in the Russian translation it's Millennium Stallion? Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 18:55
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6I honestly wish movie posters were this unique across the world...– RobotnikCommented Feb 14, 2017 at 0:53
From this page (which has this image embedded):
In 1990, Star Wars was finally released in Russia. At that time, local artists produced posters for foreign movies without any knowledge of the films, which led to some unique designs. This rare poster describes the movie as a “galactic Western” and features an imaginary image by Yury Bokser dominated by an unusual depiction of what could be Jabba the Hut and the Death Star with stars shooting out from the centre.
answered Feb 13, 2017 at 13:43
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23The most telling line for me is "without any knowledge of the films".– SkoobaCommented Feb 13, 2017 at 13:58
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6It could just be an advertisement for Jabba's new disco. Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 16:00
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9@TylerH The digital generation would never know the pain of incompatibility of regional analog signal standards used on VHS tapes. Even if you could import a VHS tape from US or Europe into USSR during the cold war and without Amazon, MESECAM based VCRs could barely play NTSC (US) or PAL (Europe) based tapes. Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 19:22
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2@TylerH Given that the general Russian public probably had next to no idea what Star Wars was, it would probably have been deemed more important to get visually-interesting posters that would draw crowds, rather than creating posters than actually followed the theme of the film. Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 21:51