CINEMAS
Slottsbiografen opened in 1914 and was much admired as one
of Sweden's most beautiful cinemas. It was here the first
sound movie was screened in Uppsala, in 1929. Ingmar Bergman,
then eleven years old, was in the crowded theatre. He spent
a large part of his childhood in Uppsala. The cinema reopened
in 1995 after a restoration, having regained the impressive
interior from its silent days.
For several decades, Trädgårdsgatan was known
as the Cinema Street or the Broadway of Uppsala. During
the years 1936-83 there were three cinemas here, all of
which will be the venues of the Uppsala International Short
Film Festival.
Skandia opened in 1925 and was designed by the city architect
Gunnar Leche. Skandia has had a varied architectural history
and its interior has been rebuilt several times. It now
serves as a venue for theatrical and musical events as well
as film screenings
Grand opened in 1936, is a good representative of the functionalist
style of architecture, and served as a contrast to the richly
decorated cinemas of the 1920's. In 1995 it was destroyed
in as fire, but has since then been rebuilt.
Filmstaden 11 corresponds to the classic Uppsala cinema
Röda Kvarn, opened in 1938. With its 600 seats Röda
Kvarn was the largest cinema in the city, and the cinema
where all the Swedish Film Industry films were premièred
in Uppsala. During the 1980's, parts of the cinema were
turned into a multiplex, Filmstaden.
Anders Leidstedt, author of the book "Uppsalas biografer".
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