Great cinema: the movie nights on the banks of the Elbe start in Dresden

The Film Nights on the banks of the Elbe in Dresden will be welcoming audiences again from Thursday evening. "Perfect Days", Wim Wenders' film about a toilet cleaner in Japan, will kick things off. Around 100 films will flicker across the giant screen in front of the baroque Old Town backdrop at the open-air event, almost a third of them in the family cinema. The summer cinema will be sticking to some classics, including concerts and the "Dirty Dancing Night". For the first time since 2019, midnight cinema will be offered again.

The line-up ranges from movie hits such as "The Big Lebowksi" or "Thelma & Louise" to new Hollywood releases such as "Poor Things" or "Barbie". Also included: the new tragicomedy "Falling Leaves" by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki and the premiere of the German comedy "Two to One", based on a true story from the time of reunification in Thuringia. The documentary feature film "Caspar David Friedrich - Limits of Time" by Peter Schamoni will be shown alongside the major Dresden art exhibition to mark the 250th anniversary of the German Romantic painter's birth.

Twelve concerts are also planned. Deep Purple, Deichkind, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, the German-Turkish singer Ayliva, who is causing a sensation on Tiktok, and pop singer Roland Kaiser are expected to perform on the stage below the Ministry of Finance. The traditional "Kaisermania" with five shows is already sold out, as are the performances by Silbermond, DJ Purple Disco Machine and the hip-hop band 01099 from Dresden's trendy Neustadt district. The Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra will also be playing film music in the open air again.

Last year, around 228,000 cineastes and music fans came to the Königsufer, compared to almost 274,000 the year before.000 - a record after the corona-related slump.