Montana Sacra German movie posters and lobby cards

Published July 20, 2025
Contributed by Florian Hardwig


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La montaña sagrada (English: The Holy Mountain) is a 1973 Mexican surreal film written, directed and produced by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The avant-garde filmmaker also played the main role.

In Germany, the film was named Montana Sacra – Der heilige Berg. Distributor Constantin-Film commissioned Peter Sickert and Dieter Noss with the poster design. For the title, they used Intrigue, outlined and with a shadow effect.

Intrigue is an octogonal sans with similarities to ITC Machine. It was shown by Lettergraphics in the late 1960s, thus predating the ITC release which came in 1970. In 2013, Pink Broccoli made Contraption. This digital interpretation of Intrigue expands the design into two widths with five weights in upright and oblique styles, plus one Inline style. Contraption Black comes closest to the original style.

Via Beardsley’s request on fontid.co. Kudos to Kevin for tracking down Contraption.




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Intrigue as shown in Lettergraphics’ Letter-Fan from 1969




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Detail




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This alternative poster also shows some of Intrigue’s lowercase, among other things.




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Two mini posters for Montana Sacra. The one with the blurbs features a bichromatic setting in orange and purple.




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Lobby cards with the movie logo



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