Grand (cinema)
Grand is a cinema at Sveavägen 45 in Stockholm 's Norrmalm district that opened on September 8, 1933. The cinema was initially operated by the Scandinavian film rights company Sandrew Metronome , before it was later taken over by the cinema operator Astoria Cinemas . After the company went bankrupt , Svenska Biografteatern took over the cinema, which it still owns today.
The entrepreneur Anders Sandrew took over the rooms from the Filadelfia-Församlingen , a Pentecostal church movement in Sweden, and commissioned the architect Björn Hedvall to transform the simple hall into a festive auditorium . Together with the artist Gunnar Torhamn , he designed an elegant salon with the associated rooms, in which in the early years 772 spectators could sit on the stalls and the stands. Despite several renovations, some details have been preserved to this day, such as the inlay work by Torhamn. In them, images of famous actors from the 1930s symbolize four continents of the world: Joan Crawford stands for America , Anna May Wong for Asia , Greta Garbo for Europe and a lightly clad Josephine Baker represents Africa .
The Grand became known as the cinema where Olof Palme watched the Swedish comedy Bröderna Mozart (Eng. "The Mozart Brothers") on February 28, 1986 , before he was murdered that evening. The "laser man" John Ausonius (former names: Wolfgang Zaugg and John Stannerman ), who came under the spotlight of the investigators, worked here as a projectionist in the late 1970s .
The cinema was last renovated in 2003. In 2009 it housed four cinemas with a total of 404 seats.
Main entrance in April 2005
Neon sign above the main entrance (2009)
Entrance hall with ticket sales (2009)
literature
- Kurt Berglund: Stockholms alla biografer: ett stycke Stockholm history från 90-tal till 90-tal . Svenska Turistföreningen , Stockholm 1993, ISBN 91-7156-113-7 (Swedish).
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Coordinates: 59 ° 20 ′ 20.8 ″ N , 18 ° 3 ′ 35.2 ″ E