CinemaxX Trier

Moselstraße 17, 54290 Trier

In Trier, Germany's oldest city, where the Porta Nigra and Imperial Baths testify to two thousand years of continuous habitation, CinemaxX occupies a site on Moselstrasse. Few cities in the country can claim such an unbroken thread from antiquity to the present, and the cinema exists within this layered context as a thoroughly modern addition to an ancient streetscape. MaxXimum Sound and digital projection serve the auditoriums, drawing an audience from the city and the surrounding Moselle wine region. University students mix with tourists who have spent the day tracing Roman ruins, and the result is a more cosmopolitan audience than the city's compact size might suggest. Trier's CinemaxX proves that even a two-millennia-old city needs new stories on its screens.