Cinema-Filmtheater, Movie theater in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Germany.
Cinema-Filmtheater is a single-screen program cinema at Nymphenburger Straße 31 in Munich's Maxvorstadt. Its 1950s curved canopy survives on the facade, and a balcony still shapes the auditorium, which was refitted with new parquet seating in September 2022 and now holds 280 seats. The screen measures 10.50 by 4.70 metres.
CINEMA opened on 23 October 1954 as one of Germany's most modern cinemas, with 580 seats and a curved 1950s canopy that still marks the facade. Under Dieter Buchwald it became Germany's first certified THX cinema in 1987 and showed the country's first digitally projected 3D film in 2005. In May 2023 the ICTA honoured it with the Presentation Excellence Award.
The CINEMA has hosted the Filmfest München and the Fantasy Filmfest. Its programme centres on original-version (OV) screenings, sneak previews and live broadcasts, including from the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the National Theatre in London. In the late 1970s it was the first art-house cinema in Germany to sell popcorn.
The cinema is at Nymphenburger Straße 31 in the Maxvorstadt district and is wheelchair accessible. The single hall now seats 280 after the September 2022 parquet seating renewal; the balcony remains. Films are shown in 4K laser projection on a 10.50 × 4.70 m screen with Dolby Atmos sound.
In 1987 the CINEMA became the first cinema in Germany certified for THX sound, and in 2005 it showed the country's first digitally projected 3D film. Since 25 April 2016 the hall has used Dolby Atmos, and since September 2021 films run on Germany's first HFR-capable 4K high-contrast laser projector from Barco.
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