VILMOS ZSIGMOND HALL
Our largest auditorium is named after the only Szeged-born Academy Award winner, cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (June 16, 1930 – January 1, 2016). Throughout his life, he maintained strong ties to his hometown and this cinema. He took great pride in knowing that the very hall where he watched his first movie as a young boy now bears his name.
Capacity: The ground floor accommodates 332 seats plus 2 dedicated spaces for wheelchair users. The balcony seats 180 guests. We also have two 2-person VIP boxes, which are reserved and not sold during regular screenings.
Screen: One of the largest movie screens in Hungary, measuring 15 x 6.5 meters, separated from the auditorium by a motorized curtain. Electrical connection points are available behind the screen.
Projection: Christie ® CP4230 4K digital cinema projector, fully DCP-compliant.
Sound System: Dolby 7.1 and 5.1 surround sound system with JBL ® speakers, with up to 4 Sennheiser RF wireless microphones available simultaneously (maximum battery run-time of 1.5 hours).
Lighting: 4 Varytec LED Theater Spot 100 spotlights with 3000K color temperature (warm white), 12 multi-color LED spotlights, 1 Eurolite DMX Move Control 512 DMX console with 1 ADJ WiFly DMX controller. (Lighting can be controlled from any point in the hall.) The auditorium is separated from the cinema lobby by an acoustic and light lock soundproof airlock.
Stage: Height 1 m, area 16 x 3.3 meters. Stage equipment includes 4 stage boxes, each featuring 6 x 16A power outlets.
BÉLA BALÁZS HALL
Our mid-sized auditorium is named after the world-renowned film aesthetician, writer, and pioneer of universal film theory born in Szeged, Béla Balázs (August 4, 1884 – May 17, 1949). The award named in his honor is one of the highest distinctions in Hungarian filmmaking. Béla Bartók’s two epoch-making stage works (Bluebeard's Castle, The Wooden Prince) were written based on his librettos. He authored screenplays for legendary directors including Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Leni Riefenstahl, Paul Czinner, and Géza Radványi. His 1948 masterpiece co-created with Radványi, Somewhere in Europe, remains celebrated today, inspiring contemporary filmmakers (e.g., Ferenc Török’s 1945) and stage adaptations.
Technical Specifications: Located on the second floor, this hall accommodates 96 seats and 1 wheelchair space. Thanks to the raked tiered seating, even young children have an unobstructed view of the eye-level screen.
Projection is powered by a Christie ® CP2230 2K digital cinema projector (DCP-compliant), complemented by a Dolby 7.1 and 5.1 surround sound system. We can provide up to 3 Sennheiser RF wireless microphones simultaneously (with up to 1.5 hours of operating time). Screen dimensions: 7.5 x 3.4 m.
Our most intimate, cozy hall is named after the Balázs Béla Prize-winning Hungarian film director József Csőke (June 27, 1927 – May 3, 2012), also born in Szeged. Throughout his career, he created around seven thousand newsreel reports and over four hundred sports, documentary, educational, and instructional films. As the chief director of the Hungarian Newsreel (Magyar Filmhíradó) from the 1950s onward, Csőke documented numerous Olympic Games, historic Hungarian athletic triumphs, physics experiments, artist and city profiles, as well as major cultural milestones (including the Szeged Open-Air Festival). Particularly legendary is his documentary on the historic 1953 England vs. Hungary football match (6:3), Match of the Century, viewed by hundreds of thousands after the historic victory. Belvárosi Mozi proudly manages and preserves his estate of several hundred film recordings.
Seating 51 guests plus 1 wheelchair space, this auditorium is a favorite destination for arthouse cinema enthusiasts.
Projection features a Christie ® CP2215 2K digital cinema projector (DCP-compliant) with a Dolby 5.1 sound system. Screen dimensions: 6.5 x 3 m.
