Passage Kino, Movie theater in Hamburg-Altstadt, Germany
Passage Kino is a movie theater in Hamburg-Altstadt with three separate screening rooms housed in a renovated building. Each room varies in size to accommodate different film formats and audience numbers.
The theater opened to audiences in 1913 and expanded several times throughout its history, first adding extra screening spaces in 1964. After closing in 2009, independent operators brought it back to life with updated equipment.
The Passage Kino shows current blockbusters alongside European arthouse films, plus special screenings of music films, ballet, opera and concert recordings and sneak previews. After Streit's Filmtheater on Jungfernstieg closed in April 2013, its English-language original versions and press screenings moved here.
The theater is centrally located near public transportation and easy to reach in the Altstadt area. Visitors should check the current program ahead of their visit since each room shows different films.
The cinema has a retractable, fold-out screen for widescreen films, a feature noted as unusual for the house. Its first sound film, The Singing Fool, was shown on 20 December 1929, the first sound film screening in Hamburg. On 20 March 1945 two aerial bombs hit the building but failed to detonate, so screenings continued.
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