A striking illustration by the Polish designer and artist Michal Piekarski features on this B1 poster for the release of the obscure Russian action film Dvoynoy Obgon (released at some point in English-speaking countries as ‘Double Passing’). I’ve struggled to find out much about the film beyond the information on its IMDb page, which includes the detail that it was helmed by Moscow-born Aleksandr Gordon, a director with a handful of titles to his name from 1956 to 1990 (when he appeared to stop working).

The lead actors, the late Boris Khimichev and Yuriy Nazarov, appear to be significantly more prolific. The latter is known for his work in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev and The Mirror. If anyone knows any details about the film’s plot please get in touch. There are several clips from car chases in the film on YouTube so it clearly made an impression in terms of its vehicular action.

Michal Piekarski has an official website which features a biography in Polish, which I’ve summarised in English:

Michał Piekarski is a Warsaw-based graphic artist with a particular love of typography, lettering and black and white. He graduated in poster design from the studio of Professor Maciej Urbaniec at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1979, the same year his poster Energia won the main prize at the Lahti Poster Biennale in Finland. His posters have also been shown at the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw. Piekarski went on to a long career in editorial design, serving as art director of magazines including Twój Styl, Elle and Gala, and designing award-winning books, among them Muzeum ulicy (Museum of the Street), a survey of the Polish posters in the Wilanów Poster Museum’s collection, which won a gold medal at the 1997 Leipzig book fair. He completed a doctorate at the Academy in 2019.

The website has a link to a gallery of his posters but nothing is currently there (as of 2026). Polishposter.com has some of his film posters listed and Cinematerial has some others.