Kino Babylon shows Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush with live music on Sunday 29 November 2026 at 6pm. The Babylon Orchester Berlin plays the score in the big hall while the film runs in a new 4K restoration. There is a second date on New Year's Eve, Thursday 31 December, also at 6pm.
The Gold Rush (USA, 1925) sends Chaplin's tramp to the Klondike in search of gold, where he survives a blizzard, a starving prospector who mistakes him for a chicken and a New Year's Eve party he waits for in vain. It contains two of the best-known scenes of silent cinema: Chaplin cooking and eating his boiled boot, and the dance of the bread rolls on forks. Chaplin himself counted it among his favourite films.
What to expect
About 90 minutes of film with a full orchestra in front of the screen, in one of the few Berlin cinemas built in the silent era: the Babylon opened in 1929 and still has its original cinema organ. The film has English intertitles with German subtitles, so it works for visitors with either language. The orchestra plays an arrangement from the Filmphilharmonic Edition; the Babylon does not name a conductor.
Good to know
- When: Sunday 29 November 2026, 6pm (also Thursday 31 December, 6pm)
- Where: Kino Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin
- Tickets: through the link on the Babylon's page (via Kinoheld) or at the box office. The price isn't shown on the film page.
- Language: English intertitles, German subtitles
- Length: 88 minutes
- Getting there: U2 Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, U8 Weinmeisterstraße
Nearby
At 4pm the same day, Simone Dede Ayivi's Schwarze Leute plays its last show at the Sophiensæle, ten minutes' walk west.