Babylon Berlin

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Television series
Original title Babylon Berlin
Babylon Berlin Logo.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German , partly also with Berlin dialect , Russian
Year (s) since 2017
Production
company		 X Films Creative Pool ,
Beta Film ,
Sky Germany ,
Degeto Film
length 45 minutes
Episodes 28 in 3+ seasons ( list )
genre Drama , police crime , thriller
Theme music To ashes, to dust - Severija .
Based on a composition by Nikko Weidemann, Mario Kamien and Tom Tykwer
Director Tom Tykwer ,
Achim von Borries ,
Hendrik Handloegten
script Tom Tykwer,
Achim von Borries,
Hendrik Handloegten
production Stefan Arndt
Uwe Schott
Michael Polle
music Johnny Klimek & Tom Tykwer, Nikko Weidemann, Mario Kamien, Bryan Ferry , The Bryan Ferry Orchestra, Moka Efti Orchestra u. a.
camera Bernd Fischer ,
Frank Griebe ,
Philipp Haberlandt
cut Alexander Berner ,
Claus Wehlisch ,
Antje Zynga
First broadcast October 13, 2017 on Sky 1
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Babylon Berlin is a German crime - television series made by X Filme Creative Pool in co-production with ARD Degeto , Sky and film beta is produced. Tom Tykwer , Achim von Borries and Henk Handloegten will direct the film . The main actors are Volker Bruch in the role of Commissioner Gereon Rath and Liv Lisa Fries as Charlotte "Lotte" Ritter, who also works for the police. The scripts of the first two seasons are based freely on Volker Kutscher's crime novel Der nasse Fisch , which is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic .

The series was initially designed for 16 episodes of around 45 minutes each in two seasons and, with a budget of almost 40 million euros, is the most expensive German television production to date and the most expensive non-English language series. After the first broadcast on Sky 1 in autumn 2017, Babylon Berlin ran from September 30, 2018 on Erste , in Austria on ORF one and in Switzerland on SRF two . The series was also taken over by HBO , with HBO running the 1st and 2nd original seasons together as the 1st season. The 3rd season has also been running since the beginning of 2020, both on HBO and HBOGO, therefore now as the 2nd season.

In early November 2017, Tykwer confirmed that two more seasons were being planned. A third season with twelve episodes was shot in May 2019 after 120 days of shooting, using the second Gereon Rath novel The silent death as a template . The first broadcast of the third season on Sky began on January 24, 2020, and the first is to be broadcast on October 11, 2020. The broadcasting rights for the third season were sold in more than 35 countries before the end of filming.

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The series takes place in Berlin in 1929, when the failure of the Weimar Republic was already becoming apparent due to the increasing economic problems and the resulting increase in strength and the renewed radicalization of the extreme right and left organizations . The protagonists are Commissioner Gereon Rath, who comes to Berlin from Cologne to investigate a blackmail case, and Charlotte Ritter, a young stenographer . Rath suffers, like many veterans at this time, under the post-traumatic stress disorder of war jitters that an after-effect of the use in the First World War is. In Berlin police headquarters Rath Charlotte Knights learns and starts with her and the Berlin colleague Bruno Wolter his investigation, and he with drugs , politics , murder and extremism comes in contact. One of the locations is Moka Efti , a large nightclub in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s . Rath's investigations soon go beyond the original moral police environment and mix with the violent clashes between Trotskyists and Stalinists , the illegal arms trade and the blood corn riots .

In the second season, Rath's investigations come up against those of the Berlin head of the Prussian secret police , who is loyal to the republic , August Benda, who tries to prove anti- constitutional activities by high-ranking members of the Black Reichswehr and thus prevent right-wing national coups . Commissioner Rath is transferred from the moral police to the criminal police under Ernst Gennat in order to support Benda's work from there with the help of Charlotte Ritter and Stephan Jänicke. It soon emerges that his former colleague Bruno Wolter is involved in the Black Reichswehr, which is why he is secretly but decisively taking action against Rath and Benda's investigations and murdering Jänicke. Despite numerous evidence of criminal plans, the putschists of the Black Reichswehr are released by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , thus destroying Benda's work. He loses his life as a result of an assassination attempt, while Gereon Rath makes one last attempt to save the results of the investigations. Bruno Wolter is also killed in a duel with Rath; he dies from a gas explosion in a tank car. Rath is promoted to a new position in the Berlin police at the end of the season, while Charlotte Ritter is finally given the position of a full-time criminal assistant for the Prussian secret police.

production

History of origin

Babylon Berlin is a free adaptation based on the crime novels by Volker Kutscher , in particular Der nasse Fisch. Gereon Rath's first case . The first planning for the series began in October 2013 after X Films Creative Pool had secured the film rights to the novels, which had sold over a million times, in 2012. In October 2014, ARD , Sky Deutschland and Beta Film joined as co-producers , with Beta Film taking over global sales.

For Tykwer, Babylon Berlin is the second television production after the Netflix series Sense8 . He sees the series in the tradition of successful American series such as The Sopranos , The Wire , Mad Men , Breaking Bad , Six Feet Under or Boardwalk Empire , which brought horizontally told stories onto television (and streaming services ).

financing

For the first time in Germany, a series was co-produced by the contribution-financed ARD, the pay-TV channel Sky, X Films and Beta Film. Sky Deutschland broadcast the first season of the series from October 13 to November 3, 2017, about a year before the free TV premiere. The funding, which ARD regards as groundbreaking, is intended to make such complex German television formats possible in the future. The financing of the series is by no means undisputed.

The budget was first put at 25 million euros for a season of eight episodes. Simultaneously with the announcement of the main actors in February 2016, the planning of two seasons with a budget of 40 million euros, or 2.5 million euros per episode (see Tatort episode about 1.27 million euros) was named. For the first planning of a season, the main part of the financing was to be brought in by X Films Creative Pool; ARD's share was estimated at nine million euros and that of Sky Deutschland at four million euros.

The project is supported by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the Filmstiftung und Medienstiftung NRW , the German Motion Picture Fund and the Media Program of the European Union , among others .

Filming

The planned start of shooting for the first season was initially in mid-2015. However, the complex financing and the required external scenery delayed the start of shooting. Finally, in February 2016, it became known that two seasons had already been planned and financed. On February 10, 2016, the main actors were presented to the public in the Babylon cinema in Berlin . Around 300 speaking roles and 200 days of shooting were planned until the end of 2016. The casting for around 5000 extras took place in April 2016. On May 19, 2016, the start of shooting and other actors were announced. Due to the tight schedule and the size of the production, the press was largely excluded from filming.

The nearly 300 locations were in Berlin and Brandenburg as well as in North Rhine-Westphalia . In addition to the studio recordings in Studio Babelsberg's studios , large parts of the filming took place in the new outdoor setting “ Neue Berliner Straße ” - international name “Metropolitan Backlot” - on the studio premises. The realization of the major TV project finally made the construction possible after it was postponed in 2014 due to liquidity problems. There were also various indoor and outdoor shoots at locations in Berlin. The Red Town Hall , for example, served as the “ Red Castle ” police headquarters , and the bloody riots of May 1, 1929 were depicted on Hermannplatz . Numerous interior shots were taken in the Schöneberg Town Hall (main entrance hall there with stairs as the entrance area of ​​the "Red Castle"), in the Prussian State Parliament - the Berlin House of Representatives - in the House of Broadcasting (scenes with a paternoster lift ) and on the Hermannplatz underground station . Other locations were the Delphi cinema in Weißensee for the Moka Efti , the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , the Kleine Nachtrevue, the Hubertushöhe Castle , the corporation house of the KStV Askania-Burgundia as Villa Benda, the Immanuel Church in Prenzlauer Berg , the Rhenish Industrial Railway Museum as a hitchhiker Goods station , the Duisburg-Nord landscape park and Drachenburg Castle . On Sunday, June 18, 2016, Alexanderplatz was completely closed for filming. According to the director Tykwer, it was assumed that the Berolinahaus and Alexanderhaus buildings planned by Peter Behrens already existed at the time of the plot. Its construction did not begin until 1929 or 1930 and was completed in 1932. The Deutsche Bank building complex on Mauerstrasse, which was empty in 2016 due to renovation work , provided around 30 film motifs (corridors, foyers, empty offices and basements) . This is where all the scenes inside the Red Castle, the basement rooms of Moka Efti, the printing works in Köpenick and the hotel rooms were created. The costume fund of the film production used other rooms. The characters Greta and "Fritz" drive in episode 8 to the Havel in Potsdam in the Sacrow Park and picnic at the Heilandskirche there .

Instead of dividing the directorial work between the three directors Tykwer, von Borries and Handloegten according to episodes, the film was shot with three teams, each responsible for one location. This means that each episode of the first two seasons was the responsibility of the directors. This worked because they wrote all the scenes in the script together.

The set designer Uli Hanisch , who has already won awards for The Perfume - The Story of a Murderer and Cloud Atlas , is responsible for the stage design , including around 8,000 square meters of outdoor scenery in Babelsberg. British pop singer Bryan Ferry makes an appearance as a night club singer.

The third season was filmed from late 2018 to mid-2019.

title

While Kutscher's novel cycle is led under the name of the main character Gereon Rath, the title of the film adaptation Babylon Berlin refers to the historical city of Babylon , as the capital of Babylonia, one of the most important cities of antiquity, as well as the biblical allegory of the " Whore Babylon ". According to Jens Balkenborg, the title of the series says it all: “This Berlin is a Moloch; Sin, corruption and violence lurk around every corner, as in the myth of the biblical city. ”Indeed, in the first decades of the 20th century, modern Berlin was often compared with the ancient metropolis. The influence ranged from the architecture and ornamentation of Art Nouveau to the naming of the Babylon cinema, which opened in 1929 .

Film music

The orchestral pieces written by Johnny Klimek and Tykwer for the series were recorded in the studio by the MDR Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kristjan Järvi in July 2016. The Moka Efti Orchestra (initially founded for this purpose) interpreted the title in the Tanzpalast .

Opening and closing credits

The title sequence is reminiscent of the Expressionist and Dadaist works of Walter Ruttmann and Hans Richter . In the end credits, excerpts from Ruttmann's Lichtspiel Opus 2 are placed behind the credits .

publication

The series premiered on September 28, 2017 with an exclusive performance in the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , one of the locations. The first season was initially broadcast weekly on the pay-TV channel Sky from October 13 to November 3, 2017, in each case as a double episode at 8:15 pm on the Sky 1 channel ; the broadcast of the second season began there on November 10, 2017, again weekly as a double episode. Since November 17, 2017, all episodes of the second season have been online on Sky Go , so that episodes 4–8 also premiered on that day.

From September 30, 2018, Babylon Berlin was shown on Das Erste in Germany , on SRF Zwei in Switzerland and on ORF one in Austria , although the series was already available in the ARD media library before the linear broadcast . Babylon Berlin has been sold in over 90 countries. Netflix secured the broadcasting rights for the USA .

On December 16, 2019, the third season of the series had its world premiere in Berlin's Zoo Palast. It began broadcasting on January 24, 2020 at 8:15 p.m., again with a double episode, on the Sky 1 channel . The other ten of the total of twelve episodes of this season were also broadcast in double episodes on the following Fridays. In parallel, and subsequently, the individual episodes each for retrieval at Sky ticket , Sky Go and Sky Q ready.

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Leading roles

actor role Episodes Season Remarks
Volker Bruch Gereon Rath 1- 1- Detective Commissioner, first delegated from Cologne, then permanently in Berlin, first with the " custom ", then with the murder commission of Ernst Gennat .
Liv Lisa Fries Charlotte "Lotte" Ritter 1- 1- Initially a stenographer and occasional prostitute, finally a criminal assistant.
Peter Kurth Bruno Wolter † 1-16 1-2 High Commissioner at the " Sitte " and conspirator of the Black Reichswehr. Significantly involved in the plan to overthrow the government and the planned assassination attempt on Gustav Stresemann . Dies from a gas explosion.
Matthias Brandt August Benda † 1-15 1-2 Councilor and head of the " Political ". Killed by a desk bomb. The figure of August Benda is based on Bernhard Weiß , lawyer and police vice-president during the Weimar Republic.
Leonie Benesch Greta Overbeck † 4-28 1-3 Girlfriend of Charlotte Ritter and maid in the Benda house. Mistress of "Fritz". Executed for her involvement in the attack on August Benda.
Lars Eidinger Alfred Nyssen 1- 1- Scion of a rich entrepreneurial dynasty, participant in the conspirators for the Black Reichswehr, lover of the Sorokina. The figure of Alfred Nyssen was modeled on the two sons Fritz Thyssen and August Thyssen junior of the industrialist August Thyssen .
Benno Fürmann Colonel Günther Wendt 6– 1- Personal advisor to Reich President Paul von Hindenburg , member of the Black Reichswehr, later successor to August Benda as head of the political police.

Supporting roles

actor role Episodes Season Remarks
Severija Janušauskaitė Swetlana Sorokina / Nikoros 1-10, 13 1-2 Night club singer at Moka Efti , posing as the daughter of the Russian Sorokin family, wants to smuggle the family's gold from Russia to Paris via Berlin. Mistress of Alfred Nyssen and Kardakow.
Christian Friedel Reinhold Graef 1- 1- Detective assistant and police photographer
Ivan Shvedoff Alexei Kardakov 1- 1- Trotskyist and lover of Sorokina. Leader of the Red Fortress, the resistance movement against Stalin .
Mišel Matičević Edgar Kasabian / "The Armenian" 1- 1- Berlin underworld great and boss of Moka Efti. Also after the Sorokins' gold.
Jens Harzer Dr. Anno Schmidt / Rath 1- 1- Doctor, therapist, turns out to be Gereon's brother, believed dead. Husband of Helga Rath, father of Moritz Rath.
Fritzi Haberlandt Elisabeth Behnke 1- 1- Landlady of the apartment in which Kardakow, Katelbach and initially Gereon Rath live. She entered into a brief liaison with Rath.
Karl Markovics Samuel Katelbach 2– 1- Writer and journalist, Rath helps with his research. He published an article about the secret rearmament of the German air force and thus the violation of the Versailles Treaty .

The figure of Samuel Katelbach shows clear parallels to Carl von Ossietzky , who was convicted of betraying military secrets in 1931 for his article "Windy things from German aviation" in his weekly newspaper Die Weltbühne (" Weltbühne trial ").

Jeanette Hain Irmgard Benda 6-8, 10th 1- Wife of Government Councilor August Benda
Ernst Stötzner Major General Seegers 1- 1- Former soldier and member of the Black Reichswehr. Head of the conspirators and instrumental in overthrowing the government.
Joachim Paul Assböck Major Beck 1- 1- Soldier and member of the Black Reichswehr.
Thomas Thieme Karl Zörgiebel 3– 1- Police President of Berlin, orders the brutal police action at the Blutmai . Is later put aside by Colonel Wendt.
Jördis Triebel Dr. Völcker 3– 1- Doctor and communist. Spokeswoman for the May demonstrations of the KPD .
Anton von Lucke Stephan Jänicke † 1-10 1-2 Detective assistant, who was assigned by August Benda to Bruno Wolter, is shot by him.
Denis Burgaslijew Trochin 2– 1- Soviet diplomat and ambassador in Berlin. He tries to prevent the Trotskyists' plans to overthrow Stalin with the help of Sorokin gold.
Dmitri Alexandrov Grigory Zelensky 2– 1- Russian diplomat and assistant to Ambassador Trochin. Is instructed by this to kill Kardakow and his colleagues.
Waléra Kanishcheff Mikhail Fallin 2– 1- Russian diplomat and assistant to Ambassador Trochin. Is instructed by this to kill Kardakow and his colleagues.
Oleg Tikhomirov Boris Volkov † 1-6 1 Trotskyist, killed by Trochin's men.
Hannah Herzsprung Helga Rath 8th- 1- Lover of Gereon and supposed widow of Anno Rath. Comes to Berlin with son Moritz after her husband has been pronounced dead.
Ivo Pietzcker Moritz Rath 8th- 1- Son of Helga and Anno Rath.
Hanns Zischler Engelbert Rath 1, 5, 8, 11 1-2 Father of Anno and Gereon Rath
Jacob Matschenz "Fritz" / Richard Pechtmann † 5– 1-3 Friend of Greta. Alleged communist, is apparently shot, turns out to be a National Socialist.
Julius Feldmeier "Otto" / Horst Kessler † 6– 1-3 Richard's companion. Alleged communist, turns out to be a National Socialist. Role based on Horst Wessel . Is later shot by the pimp " Ali ".
Henning Peker Franz Krajewski 1-8 1 Former police officer and traumatized war veteran . Becomes Wolters and Rath's informant.
Marc Hosemann Johann King 1-2 1 Photographer, creates illegal pornography .
Pit Bukowski Erich Ritter 1- 1- Brother-in-law of Charlotte Ritter
Hildegard Schroedter Minna Ritter † 1-3, 9-10 1-2 Mother of Charlotte Ritter
Laura Kiehne Use Ritter 1- 1- Elder sister of Charlotte Ritter
Irene Boehm Toni Ritter 1- 1- Younger sister of Charlotte Ritter
Lilli Fichtner Doris 1- 1- Friend of Charlotte, works as a temporary worker with the police.
Marie Gruber Emma "Emmi" Wolter 3-14 1-2 Wife of Bruno Wolter, depressed and alcoholic
Sebastian Urzendowsky Max Fuchs 3– 1- Employee at the railway, assistant to the Armenian
Udo Samel Ernst "Buddha" Gennat 9– 2– Chief of the Homicide
Luc Feit Leopold Ullrich 9, 12, 17-28 2-3 Head of the police identification service at the Berlin police headquarters
Godehard Giese Bohm 4– 1- Chief detective in the homicide squad
Waldemar Kobus Döhmann 2– 1- Pharmacist, supplies Rath regularly with morphine
Johann Juergens Rudi Malzig 2-12 1-2 Medical student, acquaintance of Stephan Jänicke, brief affair with Charlotte Ritter
Frank Künster Saint Joseph † 1-11 1-2 Priest, henchman of the Armenian
Holger Handtke Wegener 2-9 1-2 Nyssen family lawyer
Florian Panzner Major Scheer 3– 1- Member of the Black Reichswehr
Detlef Bierstedt Gustav Boess 5, 13-14 1-2 Lord Mayor of Berlin
Günter Lamprecht Paul von Hindenburg 14th 2 Reich President , ensures the release of the Black Reichswehr conspirators.
Werner Wölbern Gustav Stresemann 11-14 2 Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs , on whom an assassination attempt is to be carried out on Prangertag while visiting the Threepenny Opera in the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm .
Rolf Kanies Aristide Briand 13-14 2 French Foreign Minister who visited the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm on Prangertag together with Gustav Stresemann.
Hendrik Heutmann Sebald 1- 1- Assistant to Benda, later head of internal auditing.
Anton Rattinger Dr. black 4– 1- Forensic doctor at the Charité
Tim Fischer Ilya Trechkov 1-5 1 Night club singer and informant from Rath and Wolter
Natalia Mateo Betty Winter † 1, 12 3 Actress who was murdered while filming. Gereon Rath investigates the truth about her death. She was the wife of Tristan Roth.
Franciska Friede Gisela 3.11 3 Costume assistant
Saskia Rosendahl Marie-Louise Seegers 5- 3 Daughter of Major General Seegers
Meret Becker Esther Kasabian 1- 3 Wife of the "Armenian"
Ronald Zehrfeld Walter Weintraub 1- 3 Confidante and business partner of the "Armenian"
Martin Wuttke Hey man 4- 3 Chief editor of "Tempo", historically the person Theodor Wolff modeled
Nina Gummich Erna 5- 3 Prostitute and lover of Horst. Role based on Erna Jaenichen .
Trystan Pütter Suffered 5- 3 Lawyer of the " Red Aid ". The figure is based on Hans Achim Litten , who was known as the “advocate of the proletariat” and opponent of the Nazi regime ; murdered in 1938 in Dachau concentration camp .
Caro Cult Vera † 5- 3 Dancer / actress; Friend of Charlotte Ritter; Playmate of Walter Weintraub, is murdered
Sabin Tambrea Tristan Roth 2- 3 Husband of Betty Winter; eccentric actor and occultist

Episode list

So far, two seasons of eight episodes each have been broadcast on pay and free TV . The third season (with 12 episodes) has been running on pay TV since January 24, 2020 and is also to be shown on free-to-air television from October 11. A fourth season is planned.

Differences to the novel

The plot of the first two seasons of the series deviates in some points from Der nasse Fisch , whereby Volker Kutscher had expressly given the scriptwriters all creative freedom. He recognized his characters, although he put them on differently, Kutscher said in an interview with the FAZ . He “deliberately only roughly sketched Rath in the book” so that “every reader imagines his own Gereon.” Volker Bruch's game shows “Rath as a man who doesn't know exactly what he wants,” which fits the character of the novel . It was clear to him, according to Kutscher, "that the adaptation would not be a one-to-one representation of the characters."

Gereon Rath is a war veteran in Babylon Berlin , addicted to morphine and suffers from a post-traumatic stress disorder , while in the novel only his older brother Anno took part in the First World War as a soldier at the front. Most extensively, however, the character of Charlotte Ritter was rewritten for the series. Basically, the only thing that overlaps in the book and series is her name, her job as a stenographer and her goal of switching to the police force. In the series, Ritter comes from a poor, dysfunctional family background and also earns money as an occasional prostitute , whereas in Der nasse Fisch she comes from a middle-class family and finances her law studies as a stenographer for the homicide squad. Even her nickname is different: "Charly" in the book, "Lotte" in the series. In the series, she also has no love affair with Gereon. Some characters only appear in the series, such as Rath's sister-in-law Helga and her son, Foreign Minister Stresemann or the Armenian. The latter, however, is partly based on the important figure in the book Johann Marlow ("Dr. M."), the mastermind behind the "Berolina" ring club . In addition, some people take a different path in the film adaptation. Bruno Wolter does not blackmail Charlotte Ritter into sex in the book. Unlike in the series, he doesn't die in the end from a gas explosion, but later from the consequences of a severe burn. Charlotte Ritter's mother does not die in the novel as a result of syphilis , but also lives in later volumes as an ardent admirer of the Nazis . Other characters, on the other hand, have been expanded significantly for the series: In the book, the roles of Alexej Kardakow and Svetlana Sorokina are limited as mysterious fixed points in a network of intrigues that Rath tries to get to the bottom of, and do not step at all (Kardakow) or hardly at all (Sorokina) actively in appearance. In the series, on the other hand, both of the main actors in a complex subplot that significantly expands the book.

In the end, however, Kutscher continued, the directors remained true to the core of the novel, it remained its story, but a lot was added. Events in the novel are not mentioned, such as the blackmailing of Konrad Adenauer with compromising pornographic photos, the reconnaissance flight to the secret German air force base and the illegal transport of poisonous gas as well as the Sklarek scandal . This is only mentioned in the third volume of Goldstein as a previous event.

reception

Audience ratings

The first double episode had a total of 169,000 viewers on Sky 1 on October 13, 2017, with a further 76,000 viewers non-linear. In the first six days, the first two episodes reached a total of 1.19 million viewers, which means "the second most successful series start on a Sky channel".

The first broadcast on free TV of the first three episodes of Babylon Berlin on September 30, 2018 in the first was seen by 7.83 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.5%, of which 2.28 million (21.2% Market share) in the group of 14 to 49 year olds . Episodes 4–6 achieved an 18.2% market share on October 4, 2018 with 5.27 million viewers. Episodes 7 and 8 achieved a 14.7% market share on October 11, 2018 with 4.38 million viewers in Das Erste. A 10.8% market share with 1.03 million viewers was achieved in the group of 14 to 49 year olds.

Reviews

Christian Buß from Spiegel Online is enthusiastic in several ways after the premiere: “ Babylon Berlin purrs as a conspiracy scenario like the best US series - and yet it is fully in the tradition of a primeval German movie theater.” The “efficiently illuminated” setting, the more pays attention to the effect of “psychological coherence” as to “historical accuracy”, reminds him of the great demons and doctors of early German film art: “ Caligari ! Nosferatu !! Mabuse !!! ". For Christian Buß, the parallels between the film scene in Berlin in the 1920s and the present day are subtle but present. He sums it up with the sentence: "Here, he who controls fear has the power."

David Denk from the Süddeutsche Zeitung criticizes: “Because as visually stunning the series is, it is just as difficult for it to really touch the audience. [...] It teems with great actors with convincing performances [...], and yet, puzzlingly, there is a lack of identification figures for whose fate one would develop real empathy. As much as you like to watch the actors - Babylon Berlin doesn’t trigger any pull. [...] The series takes place at a time that we feel close to almost a hundred years later, but it is not able to transform this openness and curiosity into real enthusiasm for its story. "

Axel Schmitt from Serienjunkies.de is cautiously optimistic in his review of the two opening episodes: “The German historical drama series Babylon Berlin, which is loaded with high expectations, impresses in its two opening episodes with a flawless visual implementation and strong actors. However, history only gives an idea of ​​where it could go. "

Awards

Cast and crew at the presentation of the German TV Prize

Web links

Commons : Babylon Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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