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Babylon Berlin

Name: Babylon Berlin
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Released: 2017-10-13
Rating: 7.736

★ 7,7 /10 (418 Votes)

2017 DE 5 Seasons

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.

Stream

First air date

13/10/2017

Votes

418

Popularity

38.5

Genres

Drama Crime Mystery

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Created by

Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Hendrik Handloegten

Networks

Das Erste, Sky One

Language

Last air date

2026-09-10

Episodes

Website

www.sky.de

Season 1

8 episodes • 2017 • ⭐ 6,7

A Soviet freight train's hijacking leads a haunted cop and a poor typist to uncover a political conspiracy amid the vice…

Season 2

8 episodes • 2017 • ⭐ 7,0

Inspectors Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter investigate the death of a Hollywood actress during the filming of a big bud…

Season 3

12 episodes • 2020 • ⭐ 6,4

Weeks before Wall Street's 1929 crash, Rath and Charlotte investigate an actress's suspect death, while Greta is tried a…

Season 4

12 episodes • 2022 • ⭐ 6,8

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

Ulrich Noethen

Dr. Edmund Forster

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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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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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