Architect: Josef Kaiser.
Location: Berlin, Germany.
Year: 1963.
Photographs: via Kathrin Behrens,+ +.
Berlin’s Kino International movie theatre was constructed between 1961 and 1963. It is located on Karl-Marx-Allee in former East Berlin. It is a historically significant structure that serves as one of the locations for the yearly Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). It has a reinforced concrete frame that is three stories tall, light sandstone façades, and 14 relief sculptures by Karl-Heinz Schamal, Hubert Schiefelbein, and Waldemar Grzimek. The Soviet revolutionary drama ‘Optimistic Tragedy’ had its world premiere at the theater’s grand opening on November 15, 1963. The cinema is inclined and features acoustic technology akin to that of a recording studio. It was initially built to accommodate about 600 people.
