29 December 2022

La multi ani!

The Romanian publishing house Casa Filmului Acin used to publish many postcards in black and white and in colour with international stars. In the early 1970s, Acin also made black and white calendar cards in mini format (6 x 10 cm) with famous stars: the series La multi ani! (Happy birthday!) Our friend Alina Deaconu from Bucharest likes to collect them and sent us many photos of her La multi ani! collection. Today, at the end of this year, we share 27 of these with you. Thank you so much, Alina!


La multi ani! Ursula Andress
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmului Acin. La multi ani! Ursula Andress.

La multi ani! Tina Aumont
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmului Acin. La multi ani! Tina Aumont.

La multi ani! Julie Andrews
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmului Acin. La multi ani! Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965).

La multi ani! Dany Saval
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmului Acin. La multi ani! Dany Saval.

Julie Christie in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), La multi ani!
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmului Acin. La multi ani! Julie Christie in Far from the Madding Crowd (John Schlesinger, 1967).

Acin calendar cards


Alina Deaconu wrote to me: "As you well know, writing about the Acin calendar cards is a very complicated job. Here I'm referring in particular to the small black-and-white calendar cards (6 x 10 cm) edited by Acin.

The Acin film house, Casa Filmului Acin, started editing cards with actors and scenes from films somewhere around the end of the 1960s. The vast majority of these early cards were black and white. The small calendar cards appeared between 1970 and 1973. This is all that I know about them.

In the following years, more calendar cards were published by Acin, but these were in a postcard format and in colour. An example is the Brigitte Bardot calendar card in colour in this post.

My collection of small calendar cards îs for 90% made up of cards bought in recent years. They are very rare and are very hard to find anyway. It would be interesting to know if someone else has more information about the postcards and calendar cards edited by Acin.

I don't know anything about collectors of the Acin calendar cards. A seller from whom I bought many postcards and calendar cards gave up his collection and that's how I managed to purchase a few more."

La mult ani! Ion Besoiu
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmului Acin. Ion Besoiu.

La multi ani! Rita Pavone
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmului Acin, 1972. Rita Pavone - front side.

La multi ani! Rita Pavone (flip side)
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmului Acin, 1972. Rita Pavone - back side.

Brigitte Bardot, La multi ani 1972
Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 106. Caption: La multi ani 1972. Brigitte Bardot.

La multi ani, Virna Lisi
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1973. La multi ani! Virna Lisi.

La multi ani! Catherine Spaak
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1973. La multi ani! Catherine Spaak.

La multi anni! Claudia Cardinale
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1971. La multi ani! Claudia Cardinale.

La multi ani! Senta Berger
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1971. La multi ani! Senta Berger.

La multi ani! Mireille Darc
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1971. La multi ani! Mireille Darc.

La multi ani! Genevieve Bujold
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1971. La multi ani! Geneviève Bujold.

La multi ani! Sophie Darès
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1973. La multi ani! Sophie Darès.

La multi ani! Sophie Hardy
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1972. La multi ani! Sophie Hardy.

La multi ani! Catherine Deneuve and Jacques Perrin in Peau d'âne (1970)
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1973. La multi ani! Catherine Deneuve and Jacques Perrin in Peau d'âne/Donkey Skin (Jacques Demy, 1970).

La multi ani! Catherine Deneuve in Peau d'âne (1970)
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1973. La multi ani! Catherine Deneuve in Peau d'âne/Donkey Skin (Jacques Demy, 1970).

La multi ani! Carlo Ponti, Sophia Loren
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin. La multi ani! Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren.

La Multi Ani! Alain Delon
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin. La multi ani! Alain Delon.

La multi ani! Barbara Brylska
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin. La multi ani! Barbara Brylska.

La multi ani! Lyudmila Saveleva
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin. La multi ani! Lyudmila Saveleva.

La multi ani! Claudia Cardinale
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin. La multi ani! Claudia Cardinale.

La multi ani! Mylène Demongeot
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin. La multi ani! Mylène Demongeot.

La multi ani! Gina Lollobrigida
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin. La multi ani! Gina Lollobrigida.

La multi ani! Brigitte Bardot
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1973. La multi ani! Brigitte Bardot în Boulevard du Rhum/Rum Runners (Robert Enrico, 1971).

La multi ani! Brigitte Bardot
Romanian calendar card by Casa Filmui Acin, 1973. La multi ani! Brigitte Bardot.

All the calendar cards are from the collection of Alina Deaconu.

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