Pongrácz Erzsébet: The Cinemas of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1998)

films, but it also houses temporary photo, fine arts and film-poster exhibitions. Films play simultaneously in the 120-seat Latinovits and the 40-seat Dayka chambers. There is also a café, a video library and a small bookshop.

BEM (1916)

5/B Margit körút, district II

The Bern Cinema is almost as much a part of the Buda cityscape around Margaret Bridge as the bridge itself or the Hill of Roses. The small Helios cinema operated here from the first decades of the century, and though later it stood ownerless, empty and locked for a long time it was never forgotten. Renamed Admirál, this pleasant, popular picture house reopened in 1934 and was rechristened Adria in the forties. Since the time of nationalisation it has borne the name Bern. In the sixties artists and clowns performed here before the Sunday morning feature film. No wonder its child audiences grew up to be cinema enthusiasts! The Bern is a small, exclusive cinema on the Buda

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