On December 12 1945 Maria Stadler got as one of the first from the American occupying power the license to operate a movie theater At first she ran a traveling cinema which went so well that she opened on 30 October 1953 Marias Kino in Bad Endorf which still exists today In the winter of 197677 students of the Munich University of Film and Television made a documentary about the idealist who had since become a movie legend