After WW2, many train stations had to be rebuilt; originally a canny way of financing them, cinemas were drawn into the plans. Thus the strange world of German railway cinema came to life: a place for movies that would never make it anywhere else, whether kitsch, pure trash or pure filth. A retrospective on the birth and demise of this underworld culture.

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