
Theatinerstraße 32, 80333 München
The Theatiner Film is a landmark arthouse cinema on Theatinerstraße between Marienplatz and Odeonsplatz, preserved in its original 1950s interior. The programme leans heavily towards French and Southern European art films, usually in the original language with subtitles. Longtime employees have run the house since 2024.
In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
Olga lives a strictly regulated life without attachments in a vast apartment block. When out of financial necessity she rents a room in her apartment to a man who also sneaks-in his nine-year-old son, an unlikely bond forms. Her carefully controlled world begins to shift, and their lives become intertwined against her will.

Highly topical, serious and humorous, this film observes people who are passionately devoted to bird watching. Through their eyes and ears, we discover the world of the birds that becomes a metaphor for the state of the world.