Kino Máj, Cinema in Litoměřice, Czech Republic
Kino Máj is a cinema at Máchova 542 in Doksy, near the road between the railway station and the main square. Architects Karel Hubáček, František Dvořák and Vlastimil Kolář designed the reinforced-concrete building in 1957–1963, with a shell roof and a café on the upper floor. The single hall seats 320 and was digitalised in 2012.
The first cinema in Doksy, Kino Heller, opened in the 1920s in the rear wing of the Bezděz restaurant and burned down in 1953; screenings moved temporarily to the Grand hotel. Architect Karel Hubáček, with František Dvořák and Vlastimil Kolář, designed the new Kino Máj in 1957–1963 on Mácha Street. It opened on 9 March 1963 with Karel Kachyna's film Závrať. Digital projection arrived on 20 March 2012 with Bohdan Sláma's Čtyři slunce.
The cinema's name refers to the May festival; in 2008 it hosted the ceremonial pre-premiere of the film Máj by director F. A. Brabec. Since 2011 it has hosted the Expediční kamera travel film festival, and in April 2008 it held screenings of the Febiofest film festival. Its hall also serves theatre performances, concerts, exhibitions in the vestibule and council meetings.
Kino Máj stands at Máchova 542, on the road between the railway station and the main square. It screens all year except for a regular monthly break in winter; off season there are usually two or three screenings a week, daily in summer. The single hall seats 320.
The cinema's roof is a reinforced concrete shell, and the building was designed by Karel Hubáček with František Dvořák and Vlastimil Kolář between 1957 and 1963. Hubáček also served as site supervisor; the cinema opened on 9 March 1963 with Karel Kachyna's film Závrať.
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