Filmcasino
Photo: Facade with the curved 1950s Film-Casino lettering · 2012 — Admin1 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Cinema
Details
- Margaretenstraße 78, 1050 Wien
- 254 seats
- Opened 1911
- Architecture: Wilhelm Koch (original building 1911); Albrecht F. Hrzan (redesign 1954); Elsa Prochazka und Silvin Seelich (renovation 1989)
- Also known as: Kinematographentheater Margareten (1911-1919); Margaretner Bürgerkino (1919-1979)
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(INFO) The cinema opened in 1911 as a Kinematographentheater in Margareten and from 1919 was called the Margaretner Bürgerkino. It was 'Aryanized' in 1938; its owners Alice and Arnold Kolb were deported and murdered in 1942. After a 1954 remodelling and closure in the 1970s, the Volkshochschule took over the house and reopened it in 1989 as an arthouse cinema.
Its September 21, 1989 reopening began with the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'; in 2025 Variety ranked it among the 21 coolest cinemas in the world.
Photo at the top: Facade with the curved 1950s Film-Casino lettering · 2012 — Admin1 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Getting there
Sources
The Filmcasino's neon sign at night, Margaretenstraße 78 (2016) · 2016 — Manfred Werner - Tsui · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
The red auditorium during the audience talk at the Austrian premiere of Democracy · 2016 — Manfred Werner - Tsui · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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