
Schlankreye 69, 20144 Hamburg
The HOLI on Schlankreye in Hamburg-Harvestehude is the only traditional single-site cinema in the CinemaxX chain. It opened in 1951 in a residential building near Grindelberg, its name short for Hochhaus-Lichtspiele, and the large auditorium seats up to 450. The sequin-covered curtain in Screen 1, hand-painted by Friedrich Schwiek with Hamburg city motifs, has been restored and placed under monument protection; it is believed to be the only heritage-listed cinema curtain in the world. The programme favours arthouse films and original-version screenings, with occasional live transmissions of opera and ballet from the Royal Opera House and the Metropolitan Opera.

In the 1980s, the life of a family in a small village is determined by just one issue: the mother's body weight. Her husband Werner decides that she needs to lose weight, Cornelia suffers as a result and their daughter Ela is caught in the middle.
A plot of land, a house by the lake, its changing inhabitants. This one plot of land reflects 70 years of German history from Weimar, the Nazis, the war, the Soviet occupation and reconstruction to the fall of the GDR.