Gondel

One hall in Schwachhausen, showing films since 1953 and digital since 2012, and one of four Bremen arthouse cinemas under the same operator. The red velvet seats stand in fifteen widely spaced rows facing a screen of almost 50 m². The foyer is fitted out as a French bistro — long bar, dark wood tables, gilt-framed mirrors, star photographs — and is where the audience argues about the film before and after it. The programme leans to demanding European cinema, and of the four houses this one runs the fewest subtitled prints: roughly one screening in twenty is an original version. What the Gondel carries alone is the season of Royal Opera House and Royal Ballet transmissions from September to May, plus the Berliner Philharmoniker New Year's Eve concert, which is why most of the group's long-range advance sale sits here. Trams 1 and 4 pass the door.

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