Kino Palladium, Warsaw

Palladium is the former cinema at Złota 7/9, active until the closing years of the twentieth century. Notice the façade’s broad, regular face: the building was constructed from 1935 to 1937 for an Italian insurance company, with homes above and entertainment spaces below. During the German occupation, the cinema was renamed Helgoland and reserved solely for Germans.

Its most extraordinary chapter came during the Warsaw Uprising, when insurgent film crews screened the newsreels Warszawa walczy here. After the destruction of the Victoria Hotel, the headquarters of Home Army commander Antoni Chruściel, known as “Monter,” moved into this building. The cinema resumed activity after the war with Zakazane piosenki. It later closed around 2000; the Palladium club now hosts concerts and theatre performances.