Aus dem Leben der Marionetten titles

Contributed by Lars Wästfelt


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Title sequence for Aus dem Leben der Marionetten (English: From the Life of the Marionettes), a 1980 feature film directed by Ingmar Bergman and produced in West Germany. According to ingmarbergman.se, the film is about “a businessman with a tempestuous marriage [who] is subject to murderous impulses.”

The typeface used for the title card, the intertitles, as well as the end credits is Berthold’s Schreibmaschinenschrift, a generically named typewriter face designed in-house in 1969. Among digital fonts, EF Techno Script comes close.

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This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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