Victoria, Cinema in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
Victoria is a cinema at the corner of Götgatan and Åsögatan in Södermalm, Stockholm. It has eight screening rooms: Victoria 1 (174 seats), 2 (177), 3 (77), 4 (80), 5 (23), 6 and 7 (added in 2010), and 8 (added in 2017), totaling 609 seats. The original 1936 auditorium was egg-shaped and set diagonally, with walls widening toward the floor for acoustics and a 24-meter concrete beam supporting the balcony without pillars.
Victoria was built in 1936 for Sandrew Film & Teater AB in a new apartment block at the corner of Götgatan and Åsögatan, designed by cinema architect Ernst Grönwall. The egg-shaped auditorium had over 1,000 seats, 285 on a balcony supported by a 24-metre concrete beam. In 1973 it became a four-screen cinema, with a fifth added in 1976; two more followed in 2010 and an eighth at Christmas 2017.
The cinema's name appears in vertical red neon capitals on Götgatan, a sign nominated for the Lysande skylt award in 2016; the smaller sign above the entrance is a recent copy of the 1936 original. The inlaid doors inside, made from sketches by Rudolf Persson, depict the four film roles: writer, director, actor and photographer. From spring 2010 to spring 2017, Cinemateket screened films here on Monday evenings.
The eight halls are split between the ground floor and the upper level, with Victoria 6 and 7 added downstairs in 2010 and Victoria 8 arriving at Christmas 2017. The entrance is the 22-metre-wide, five-metre-high glazed and polished-metal arch on the Götgatan corner.
The semicircular entrance is 22 metres wide and five metres high, built of glass and polished metal. Inside, the auditorium doors carry marquetry scenes of four film roles: the writer, the director, the actor and the photographer.
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