Metropolis Kino, Art house cinema in Hamburg, Germany
Metropolis Kino is an art house cinema in Hamburg featuring a single screen with 270 seats that shows classic films, independent productions, and international cinema. The auditorium sits behind a modern office building facade near the State Opera House.
The cinema began operating in 1979 and occupied several locations before moving in 2011 to its current building on Kleine Theaterstrasse. Since then it has remained dedicated to film preservation and safeguarding cinema history.
The cinema's name comes from Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis, shown at its opening on 13 October 1979. It hosts nearly all Hamburg film festivals, including the Fantasy Filmfest, the Japan-Filmfest and the Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage, which started here in 1989. Silent films are screened with live musical accompaniment.
The cinema provides wheelchair accessibility and sits next to the State Opera House, making it easy to reach. Visitors can purchase tickets online and check the program on its website.
The film archive holds more than 5500 titles, including the deposit archive of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and US productions from the 1940s brought by Hamburg exiles. The projection booth keeps 8 mm, 16 mm and 35 mm projectors, so silent films can be screened at their original 16 to 24 frames per second.
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