Set in Germany's Weimar Republic in the late 1920s Babylon Berlin is a brilliant production, a welcome surprise for American television. The sets are fantastic and the actors are brilliant. Now it is excellently dubbed in English, and it is dubbed so well I thought at first it was filmed in English to begin with. I don't know what the budget is for this series, but I am very impressed with this show. Liv Lisa Fries plays Charlotte Ritter, a plucky young lady working odd jobs, including piece work for the police department, to support her extended family. She is plucky, smart, and willing t…
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Babylon Berlin
Overview
Beneath the decadence of 1929 Berlin, lies an underworld city of sin. Police investigator Gereon Rath has been transferred from Cologne to the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
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First air date
13/10/2017
Votes
392
Popularity
19.4
Specials
Season 1
A Soviet freight train's hijacking leads a haunted cop and a poor typist to uncover a political conspiracy amid the vice…
Season 2
Inspectors Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter investigate the death of a Hollywood actress during the filming of a big bud…
Season 3
Weeks before Wall Street's 1929 crash, Rath and Charlotte investigate an actress's suspect death, while Greta is tried a…
Season 4
Now in the 1930s, the city is grappling with the Great Depression - and the Nazi's march to power is in full swing.
Volker Bruch
Gereon Rath
Liv Lisa Fries
Charlotte Ritter
Lars Eidinger
Alfred Nyssen
Benno Fürmann
Günter Wendt
Ronald Zehrfeld
Walter Weintraub
Meret Becker
Esther Kasabian
Fritzi Haberlandt
Elisabeth Behnke
Jördis Triebel
Dr. Völcker
Karl Markovics
Samuel Katelbach
Christian Friedel
Reinhold Gräf
Trystan Pütter
Hans Litten
Saskia Rosendahl
Marie-Luise 'Malu' Seegers
Udo Samel
Ernst Gennat
Rüdiger Klink
Czerwinski
Thorsten Merten
Henning
Godehard Giese
Wilhelm Böhm
Jens Harzer
Dr. Schmidt
Hannah Herzsprung
Helga Rath
Ivo Pietzcker
Moritz Rath
Martin Wuttke
Gustav Heymann
Sebastian Urzendowsky
Max Fuchs
Peter Jordan
Fred Jacoby
Hanno Koffler
Walther Stennes
Marie-Anne Fliegel
Anne-Marie Nyssen
Irene Böhm
Toni Ritter
Hans Martin Stier
Albert Grzesinski
Mark Ivanir
Abraham Goldstein / Abe Gold
Moisej Bazijan
Jacob Grün
Holger Handtke
Wegener
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An atmosphere of German 20's chic permeates Babylon Berlin. Its a detective tale at its heart that initially captures the vibe of a decade that celebrated a newfound carefree freedom. A freedom that was not repeated until the 1960's. There's a real sense of flamboyance and decadence, that's colourful., celebratory and sexually promiscuous. Overlapping this is a delicately constructed story line that mixes a detective tale, with evolving political intrigue and cultism/militarism. The latter the earliest murmurs of an inflexible, embryonic nationalism, which will usher in an era of Nazism, wh…
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