Studio-Kino

In the Hamburg district of Altona-Altstadt stands the Studio-Kino, a program cinema that divides its evenings between two screening rooms. The programming willingly steps off the mainstream, without giving up blockbusters in their original language with subtitles. Behind the façade hides almost a century of Hamburg film history.

The story begins in 1929, when the Lichtburg opened inside a former mirror factory. In the following decades, changes of appearance and names followed one another: from Deutsche Lichtspiele to Deuli. After the Second World War the screenings continued, with films that had already passed through the larger theaters. The arrival of television emptied the hall, until the closure of 1962. The building remained unused until 1989, when the UFA brought it back to life. A Kinoton FP 20 projector and a Dolby SR sound system took their places in the projection booth. In 2004 the venue found its vocation: arthouse films, LGBTQ+ titles, film nights and shorts.

The large hall offers one hundred and thirty-six seats and a fifty-square-metre screen. The smaller one instead offers seventy-two seats and a fifteen-square-metre screen. In both rooms, 3D projectors and Dolby Digital 5.1 sound systems are at work. The membership in the Europa Cinemas network brings films of every genre and country to the billboard. The mirrors of the old factory are gone: in their place, the light of the projector remains.