This film poster promotes the film 'House on a Volcano', directed by the Soviet Armenian director Amo Bek-Nazarov. The film told the story of a group of oil workers in Baku who become angry when they learn that their houses were built by an oil company in a region made unstable by dangerous pockets of natural gas. The poster gives a sense of the film's dramatic plot- featuring a close-up of the wide eyed and terrified face of the film's heroine. The use of extreme close up photography, unusual angles and dramatic proportions in this poster echoes the new avant-garde cinema style popular in Russia during the 1920s and 1930s.