Retrospect

09. May - 10. May 2025

Collect Films!

Egbert Barten and the Geoffrey Donaldson Instituut from Noord-Scharwoude

Not far from Alkmaar, Egbert Barten founded the private Geoffrey Donaldson Instituut in his home town of Noord-Scharwoude in 2013, named after the Australian pioneer of Dutch film historiography (1929-2002). Exhibitions and film screenings are held here regularly. Egbert Barten has made a selection for the Zeughauskino that is as varied as it is instructive: from comedies from the silent film era to West German film noir, from sophisticated psychological thrillers to satire about the behavior of German tourists on the campsite.

05. April - 06. May 2025

Who’s Afraid of Kitsch and Kino?

The Films of Vicki Baum

The retrospective "Who's Afraid of Kitsch and Kino? The Films of Vicki Baum” traces the writer's influence on cinema and offers a journey through international film history. The program is structured around key themes in Vicki Baum's oeuvre.

08. April - 29. April 2025

“Nobody Welcomed Us”

The Liberation of Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen 80 Years Ago

The beginning of May 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. To mark the occasion, numerous events will be held at the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, the Death March Memorial in the Below Forest and the Klinkerwerk Subcamp Memorial. To accompany these events, the Zeughauskino, in cooperation with the Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum, is showing four evenings of feature films and documentaries that approach the site and its stories in very different ways.

1. March - 31. March 2025

The Lady with the Torch

Homage to Columbia Pictures

A Hollywood landmark: the woman with the torch, reminiscent of the Statue of Liberty and initially even draped in the American flag. The retrospective curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, which presents a number of films in new restorations, was first shown at the Locarno Film Festival in 2024. A selection can now be seen at the Zeughauskino.

12. January - 23. March 2025

Kästner's Cinema

Erich Kästner (1899-1974) is one of the most popular German-language authors. The retrospective brings together first film adaptations of his novels in which the writer himself took part, as well as remakes since the 1970s. Also shown are films from the National Socialist era whose screenplays were written by Kästner, who was banned from publishing in Germany after 1933 and from 1943 onwards, under a pseudonym or completely unnamed.

02. February - 23. February 2025

Animated Economic Miracle

West German animated films of the 1950s

Curated by Jeanpaul Goergen, the retrospective of West German animated films from the 1950s brings together advanced artistic works, information and children's films as well as animated films that advertise products in the land of the economic miracle.