Filmcasino, Art Deco movie theater in Margaretenstrasse, Vienna, Austria.
Filmcasino is a single-screen cinema at Margaretenstrasse 78 in Vienna's fifth district, Margareten. It has 254 seats and a well-preserved interior from the 1950s, designed by architect Albrecht F. Hrzan.
The first cinema opened at Margaretenstraße 78 in 1911 and was renamed Margaretner Bürgerkino in 1919. In 1938 the Jewish owners Alice and Arnold Kolb were deported and murdered, and the cinema was "aryanized". Architect Albrecht F. Hrzan rebuilt the building in the 1950s, giving the cinema its present appearance; it reopened in 1954. After closure in the early 1970s it served a Yugoslav cultural association until its reopening on 21 September 1989.
This cinema shows European and Asian films as well as independent American productions in their original languages with subtitles, focusing on works rarely found in mainstream multiplex theaters. Visitors come here to discover films from beyond the commercial mainstream.
The cinema is located in Vienna's fifth district, and the box office opens 30 minutes before each showing. With only one screen seating around 250 people, arriving early is advisable to secure a good seat, especially for popular screenings.
The cinema's 1989 reopening under the Volkshochschule Margareten began with the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey; the first regular film shown was Jacques Rivette's La Bande des quatre. In 1993 Nick Park presented The Wrong Trousers here before flying to Hollywood to collect the Oscar for it.
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