In the film "Seventeen Moments of Spring," this building played the role of the Berlin hotel "Neue Tor," near which Stirlitz met Bormann, whose car was supposed to stop to the left of the entrance at the corner of the streets, when viewed from the Museum of Natural History.

"He got out, sat behind the wheel, and slowly drove to Invalidenstraße, to the Museum of Natural History. Bormann was soon expected to arrive there, at the 'Neue Tor' hotel."

But this house is notable not only for its role in cinema. On the tops of its two towers, you can see cats. According to legend, the wealthy homeowner Blümer, unhappy that he was not allowed to become a member of the Riga Great Guild, the representative body of Riga’s merchants, undertook an act of psychological retaliation. He commissioned sculptural images of black cats with arched backs and placed them on the pointed turrets of his tenement house, turning their tails toward the windows of the office of the elder of the Great Guild. A lawsuit was initiated against Blümer, but legal measures failed to make the cats face forward, since Blümer was a good friend of the judge and paid generous bribes. It is unknown when and how a settlement was reached with the stubborn and unyielding Blümer, but in the end, the cats were turned to the 'correct' angle."

More about the house:

https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_with_Black_Cats