film forum Duisburg
The filmforum in Duisburg is the oldest municipal cinema in Germany. It was opened on September 27, 1970 and is now operated by filmforum GmbH.
As early as 1959 , demanding films under the program title "filmforum" have been shown regularly as part of the adult education program in Duisburg. The great success led to the foundation of the “film forum” of the adult education center as a continuously playing cinema. The commercial cinema program was to be supplemented by a municipal art film theater. At the beginning of the 1970s, the cinema organized the “Film Information Days” together with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which focused on selected West German films. This resulted in the Duisburg Film Week in 1977 .
The film screenings initially took place in the large hall of the Duisburg Adult Education Center. Later they moved into Studio M in the Mercatorhalle . In 1980 the company finally moved into its own house in Duisburg's Dellviertel . The house on Dellplatz, which was destroyed and rebuilt after the war, had been home to a cinema since the 1940s.
The film-historical archive of the filmforum is of particular importance. It is one of the largest in North Rhine-Westphalia. A large number of important film documents are housed there, such as a copy of Sergej Eisenstein's armored cruiser Potemkin and the classic film Saved by Rover, which was long believed lost .
Summer cinema
Since 1996, the filmforum has organized an open-air cinema in the casting hall of the former iron and steel works annually in July and August in cooperation with the Duisburg-Nord landscape park . The main and name sponsor of this event was initially Diebels ( Diebels Open Air Kino ), since 2007 Stadtwerke Duisburg ( Stadtwerke Sommerkino ). In 2016, 44,125 tickets sold, the highest number of viewers in the “summer cinema” to date.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 49.8 " N , 6 ° 45 ′ 41" E