"Star Wars" (1990), commissioned for the first official Soviet release of the American science fiction film, represents a pivotal moment of cultural convergence in the late Soviet era. Foreign films, previously limited to a handful of carefully selected art house releases, were suddenly flooding Soviet cinemas as Gorbachev's Perestroika policies dramatically reshaped Soviet popular culture.

The composition centres on Darth Vader's helmet, rendered through precise geometric forms and luminous white outlines, set against a cosmic void. The crown emanates seven rays in cyan, magenta, yellow, and green, creating a radiant halo effect. While the artwork demonstrates clear influence from Soviet technical drawing and engineering diagrams in its precision, Maistrovsky executes it in pastel—a deliberately unmechanical medium. The background flows from deep space black through luminous purples to a heated horizon, while vertical borders grids contain hieroglyph-like figures that simultaneously evoke ancient writing systems and otherworldly alien script.

Created as the USSR entered its final year, the work reflects the era's fundamental tensions between Soviet artistic identity and Western popular culture. The constructivist influence—seen in the geometric precision and technical drawing quality—draws directly from the Soviet avant-garde tradition of the 1920s, particularly Alexander Rodchenko's work. Yet Maistrovsky transforms these elements to serve commercial cinema, reflecting the Soviet Union's rapid transition from state-controlled art to market-driven design. His treatment recasts Vader through a distinctly Soviet lens, using the visual language of technical drafting to make this icon of American entertainment resonate with local artistic traditions.

Igor Markovich Maistrovsky (1950-2015) graduated from the Moscow Higher School of Art and Industrial Design in 1972. He worked primarily in film and theatre promotion, producing over 300 posters. His work gained international recognition through inclusion in "The World's 100 Best Posters" exhibition (1988) in Moscow, and is in the collection of institutions including The State Tretyakov Gallery and Musee de Publicité, Paris.