Eisenach Capitol

Alexanderstraße 12, 99817 Eisenach

Eisenach is a city of towering cultural associations: the Wartburg castle above the town sheltered Martin Luther during his translation of the New Testament, and Johann Sebastian Bach was born in a house just off the market square. The Capitol on Alexanderstrasse brings cinema to a Thuringian town whose relationship with narrative and language runs uncommonly deep. The surrounding forests of the Thuringian uplands give Eisenach a secluded, almost contemplative atmosphere that persists even in its commercial centre. To watch a film here is to sit in a city where the act of storytelling has been taken seriously for half a millennium.