Cinémas Mythiques: Le Lucerna de Prague

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This documentary series takes us on a trip to mythical cinemas all over the world. Each of these cinemas has made an indelible impression on the history of its country and film history. In this episode, Max von Sydow tells the story of Amsterdam’s Tuschinski Theater.

After 50 years in exile, an old man returns to a cinema familiar from his youth: the Tuschinski Theater in Amsterdam. This famous cinema embodied the dream of Abraham Tuschinski, who left his shtetl in Poland and established himself in Rotterdam, where he started a canteen to welcome Jewish immigrants.

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This documentary series takes us on a trip to mythical cinemas all over the world. Each of these cinemas has made an indelible impression on the history of its country and that country’s film history. This episode visits the Lucerna Theater in Prague, built by Vaclav Havel’s grandfather.

The Lucerna theater, in the heart of the new Prague, was built by Vaclav Havel, grandfather of the former president of Czechoslovakia. The Lucerna was the pinnacle of ‘New Art’. Vaclav Havel wanted his cinema to embody the Czech spirit and pride.

Mythical Cinemas: The Lucerna, Prague

This documentary series takes viewers to mythical cinemas around the world. Every one has unmistakeably left its mark on its country and cinema’s history. In this episode, Thission in Athens.

A white cement screen. Red chairs, neatly lined up. Four walls bedecked with wild grape vines. The heavens above Athens, the illuminated silhouette of the Acropolis. As dusk falls, the Thission awaits its first visitors. The Thission, “the most beautiful cinema on the planet,” according to CNN Travel, is an old, open air cinema in Athens which, despite its location in the extremely touristic part of the city by the Acropolis stubbornly defies modernity and remains remarkably timeless.

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At the southernmost tip of Chile’s Tierra del Fuego, in a pioneer’s village in Porvenir, stands a cinema founded by two adventurers; one Croation, one German. In 1902 they wondered how they were going to spend their winters in the dry, desolate area. “What about opening a cinema?” they said to one another.

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Mythical Cinemas

Mythical Cinemas: The Lucerna, Prague

Joël Farges / FR, 2015 / 52 min.

This documentary series takes us on a trip to mythical cinemas all over the world. Each of these cinemas has made an indelible impression on the history of its country and that country’s film history. This episode visits the Lucerna Theater in Prague, built by Vaclav Havel’s grandfather.

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