UCI Kinowelt Mercedes Platz & IMAX

Berlin · GermanySingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 44/100 — a modest premium screen, 230 m² of lit picture, with 19% of the screen never lit. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 21 September 2026.

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IQ 44

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen: 20.9 m × 13.5 m (282 m²)
Picture area: 230 m² — 19% of the screen is never lit
Screen shape: 1.55:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: Not published
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2018
Operator

Why IQ 44

Screen size12/38

Projection24/36

Full 1.43 frame8/18

Sound0/8

⌷ Size is scored on the picture, not the fabric. This screen is taller than its projector's frame, so a chunk of it is never lit and doesn't count.

How big, really?

Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m

1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3UCI Kinowelt Mercedes Platz & IMAX · 20.9×13.5 m · picture 230 m², 19% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

3 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 3 up · 282 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 282 m²
Picture: 230 m²
Screen used: 81%

2.5 m of this screen — 19% of it — stays dark for a IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.

Worth travelling for?

Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach

Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.

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Where this comes from

Single source

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status: verified open

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