The Kino International is a film theater in Berlin, built from 1961 to 1963. It is located on Karl-Marx-Allee in former East Berlin. It hosted premieres of the DEFA film studios until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Today it is a protected historic building and one of the venues of the annual Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).
Kino International
North facade
Projectors
Curtains (2006)
Karl-Marx-Allee is a monumental socialist boulevard built by the GDR between 1952 and 1960 in Berlin Friedrichshain and Mitte. Today the boulevard is named after Karl Marx. It should not be confused with the Karl-Marx-Straße in the Neukölln district of Berlin.
Aerial view of Karl-Marx-Allee with the twin towers of Frankfurter Tor visible in the back
The western part of the boulevard is marked by panel buildings (1967)
Domed Tower at Frankfurter Tor
Façade of a Stalinist era apartment bloc