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“Movie in the Luitpoldhaus”: restart after an eight-month Corona break next Thursday
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Rain showers and gray clouds in June – at least for cinema operators this is actually bomb weather. Let’s see what Thursday brings. Because the “Movie in the Luitpoldhaus” in Marktheidenfeld will let in visitors again, for the first time after an eight-month Corona break. Due to the low incidence values in the district, this is possible under rather loose conditions. The opening date “we have planned and we are sticking to it,” says cinema owner Johannes Bröstler. The first film will be shown at 4.30 p.m.
The cinema industry is working to ensure that cinemas across Germany can reopen from July 1st. “We wanted to start two or three weeks in advance so that we could get all the processes back in”, says Bröstler. In the next few weeks it will also be possible to test how the requirements are to be implemented. “It’s not that much different than it was last year,” says Bröstler. The hygiene concept is therefore already well established.
“It is compulsory to wear a mask in the entire building, including in the hall.” A distance of 1.5 meters must be maintained everywhere – “regardless of where, whether in the foyer or on the way to the toilet or in the hall”. For this, seats would have to be left free, only a third of the hall could be occupied.
“We don’t need to talk a lot about profitability,” says Bröstler. But he would be satisfied if a third of the hall were occupied for every performance. He was pleased that the test was no longer compulsory: “In my opinion, that would have been the biggest obstacle to whether people go to the cinema or not.” The cinema has also done everything to enable customers to visit the cinema safely: “Ours We have completely converted the ventilation systems to fresh air. ”The room air is exchanged for fresh air several times an hour.
“We decided that we would play the films that have just been released in the last two weeks,” says Bröstler. To do this, his colleague Oliver Hauguth has to import the films. From Disney there is the real-life film »Cruella«, the prelude to 101 Dalmatians, and the animated film »Raya and the Last Dragon«. The program will also include the Lower Bavarian crime comedy “Weissbier im Blut” and for the little ones the cinema special by “Fireman Sam”.
New films should then come from the distributors every week, because they first needed to be able to offer anything new. The cinema should then be open again every day. “That was a very curious situation,” says Bröstler. For 25 years the cinema was open every day, even on Christmas and New Year’s Eve – and then closed for months due to Corona.
The opening times would be reduced a bit at the beginning of the restart, “so that we don’t start very early and don’t have performances that late.” The cinema owner has already planned for the core times.
“Today we will talk to the distributors again and the films will be finally clarified,” said Bröstler on Monday morning. The employees all already know what to do. “The standard work is running, which otherwise always ran on Mondays, so that the program can run on Thursday.”
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