CineStar Stade

Kommandantendeich 1-3, 21680 Stade

At the Kommandantendeich in Stade, a beautifully preserved Hanseatic town on the lower Elbe just west of Hamburg, CineStar provides cinema to a community that combines small-town charm with big-city proximity. Stade's half-timbered old town, centred on the picturesque Alter Hafen, is among the most photogenic in Lower Saxony, and the town's thousand-year history lends it a gravity that its modest size might not suggest. The cinema draws audiences from Stade itself and the wider Altes Land fruit-growing region, whose apple orchards and farm stands create one of northern Germany's most distinctive rural landscapes. Many in the audience commute to Hamburg for work and appreciate having quality entertainment closer to home. The screens are modern and well-maintained, offering a full mainstream programme. It is a cinema that serves the pleasant fiction that a town this beautiful needs nothing from the wider world — certainly not a drive to Hamburg for a film.