Zoo Palast - Saal 1 Independent operator giant screens
Berlin · GermanySingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this Independent operator giant screens (reference category) room C, 36/100 — a modest premium screen, 193 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a dated source, so the score is indicative. Data read 21 September 2026.
Berlin's largest cinema auditorium and a Berlinale venue. FIGURES CONFLICT - flag as commonly-claimed: B.Z. cites 21.5m x 9m with 800 leather seats and 91 loudspeakers; another German source says 21m x 9m; a technical listing says 185 sq m with 791 seats. 4K laser, Dolby Atmos, over-11m-high ceiling with a starry-sky installation. 1957 is the historic opening; the house was gutted and reopened as a premium cinema in Nov 2013.
Map position approximate (city centre)
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- 4K Laser(as of 2021)
- Screen
- 21.5 m × 9 m (194 m²)
- Screen shape
- 2.39:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 2.39:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- 791
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 1957
- Operator
- Premiumkino / Flebbe Premium Entertainment
The projector here comes from a 2021 industry listing that we haven't been able to re-confirm. IMAX has converted a lot of screens to laser since — where we could check, 100 venues listed as xenon had been upgraded. Treat the score as indicative.
Why IQ 36
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
- 3Zoo Palast - Saal 1 · 21.5×9 m
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 194 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 194 m²
- Picture
- 194 m²
- Screen used
- 100%
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
UCI Kinowelt Mercedes Platz & IMAX
Berlin · 2.1 mi away
You'd get 46% more screen.
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
Also in Berlin
Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- single source
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Operating status
- verified open
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
Showtimes
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