Star Wars - A New Hope (Hungaria)
Star Wars definitely came as a certified phenomenon™ here in North America. Because of this, much of the promotional art work associated with the film has become quite well known and iconic. But in some distant lands, other countries did not just get posters with foreign text, they actually got original art of their own. Let’s take a look at the movie posters from Hungary and Poland, and see how you think the graphics measure up. (The source site where I found these calls it ‘Hungaria’, which research indicates is likely the country of Hungary, although there is the chance it refers to the even farther off land of the Hungaria family.)
Empire Strikes Back (Hungaria)
Return of the Jedi (Hungaria)
Star Wars - A New Hope (Poland)
Empire Strikes Back (Poland)
Return of the Jedi (Poland)
All images from the Flickr of walt74, except the Polish A New Hope, which is from geekynerfherder.blogspot.com.
Those posters make me think the Polish version was better than the US version.
It's been a long time, but I don't remember any green, scaly, red eyed toothy dragon guys in those films. Is that a character they added for the 'Hungaria' release?
Remember this is George Lucas so if there isn't one now, and there isn't, one will be added soon enough in the Super Deluxe 3D-Orama Blu-Ray Box Set now with 3 and a half seconds of new footage but not including that scene of Luke talking to his friends.
I like how they incorporated the Death Star as Darth Vader's eye.
Polish Star Wars wins hands down. The Hungarian one is too "far out" for me. It happens to be one galaxy too far away for me.