“The Camp Followers” (国境は燃えている), Original Release Japanese Movie Poster 1965, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) O779

This is an original Japanese B2 movie poster printed in 1965 for the first Japanese theatrical release of The Camp Followers (国境は燃えている / Le Soldatesse), a Italy / France / Yugoslavia war romance directed by Valerio Zurlini, starring Anna Karina, Lea Massari, and Tomas Milian (with Mario Adorf).

Film background
Released in 1965, Zurlini’s Le Soldatesse is a poignant, human-scale wartime drama set against the chaos of occupation and shifting borders. Rather than battlefield heroics, the film focuses on moral fracture, coerced survival, and the fragile intimacies that emerge under pressure—hallmarks of Zurlini’s cinema, known for its emotional restraint and psychological depth. The film is often cited as one of the director’s most powerful works of the period and a striking vehicle for Anna Karina in a more dramatic register.

Poster design
A superb Japanese B2 that combines star portrait glamour with wartime collapse. Anna Karina’s intense close-up dominates the sheet—eyes turned, expression guarded—while small figures of women line the horizon like silent witnesses. The title 「国境は燃えている」 is rendered in bold, sweeping red brush-style typography across the middle, with the French title Le Soldatesse tucked in as an elegant counterpoint. Along the bottom, a panoramic band of ruined landscape and displaced crowds conveys the scale of conflict, with a small vignette of a couple at right suggesting the film’s emotional stakes. A powerful, highly displayable mid-1960s art-house war poster.

Condition
Excellent (close to near mint). Please review the photos—they show the exact poster for sale.

It is over 60 years old!

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

Certificate of Authenticity included.