Moviemento

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The Moviemento is a cinema on Kottbusser Damm in Berlin-Kreuzberg . It was opened in 1907 and is one of the oldest still operating cinemas in Berlin and Germany .

Moviemento

history

The cinema was founded in 1907 by the restaurateur Alfred Topp as a cinematograph theater. On the first floor of his residential and commercial building at Kottbusser Damm 22, built in 1905, he set up the cinema at Zickenplatz - also known as the "Topps Kino". According to legend, the name became the term " Kintopp ", which is still a synonym for the early days of cinema.

The mirror projection was a curiosity. Due to the given floor plan of the corner house, the area was divided into two cinema halls that met at 45 ° and were connected by a transparent screen. In the rear hall, for a reduced admission fee, the film was mirrored, which was then corrected with the help of a mirror surface.

Over the years the name was changed several times: After Vitascope Theater , Odeon and Hohenstaufen Light Games (1930-1959) shortly followed The living picture , later Taki and Tali . Wieland Speck was responsible for the program in the Tali off-screen cinema in the 1970s.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the then Tali-Kino, which in the 1970s was mainly known for its legendary Rocky Horror Picture Show performances and which had suffered greatly in this context, was taken over by the operator of the Colonna cinema (today Xenon Kino ) André Rudolf took over and converted it into an art house cinema with three cinemas (62, 67 and 103 seats). Until 1984 it was called "The Living Image". In 1984, Ingrid Schwibbe, his partner at the time, took over the cinema from André Rudolf, and Rudolf was responsible for program design until the end of the 1980s. Since 1984 it has been called "Moviemento". In the 1980s Tom Tykwer was employed as a projectionist in Moviemento and was responsible for the Moviemento's program after Rudolf's departure.

In 2007 Iris Praefke and Wulf Sörgel took over the cinema, which they want to make a premiere cinema again . After a renovation, it reopened in March. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary on March 29th, the classic film Berlin: The Symphony of the Big City (1927) by Walter Ruttmann was shown with live musical accompaniment.

Since 2009 the Berlin Porn Film Festival has been held every year in mid-autumn in Moviemento .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 25.2 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 24.4"  E