
Antonienstraße 21, 04229 Leipzig
The Schauburg opened in 1928 at the Adler, the main crossroads of Leipzig's Kleinzschocher district, in an Art Déco building by the architect Hermann Mäding. It is a listed monument, entered in the register as a rare surviving example of a 1920s picture house. The single hall seated 917 back then. In the early 1960s it became the first cinema in the GDR to be fitted with Cinerama and was known well beyond Saxony as the Panoramakino Schauburg. Conversions in 1995 and again between 2006 and 2008 left three screens of 221, 112 and 102 seats, with a bistro in the entrance. It runs as a Programmkino and Europa Cinemas member: current releases alongside arthouse titles, thematic series, family screenings at weekends, and Das Montagsoriginal, a standing Monday slot for films in their original language. The rest of the week is mostly German-language.

In early 1943, at the Auschwitz main camp, hundreds of Jewish women are confined in cramped quarters in BLOCK 10, which is separated from the rest of the camp grounds. Nazi doctors subject them to the most painful methods of forced sterilization. Prisoner doctors are forced to collaborate. The Jewish gynecologist Dr. Maximilian Samuel is blackmaile…
Farasha and Faris are 20 when they meet at a graduation party – one glance that changes everything. But Farasha dies that very same night. Refusing to be separated from him, she discovers a way to cross the boundary between worlds: for 40 nights, and 40 nights only, she can meet Faris in his dreams. And so their love continues to grow, until the very last night.
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.