Interwar · Series · 2017
Babylon Berlin
A traumatised police inspector from Cologne and an ambitious young clerk investigate crimes that lead into the conspiracies tearing apart Weimar Berlin.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 3 places.
Stop 1: Police headquarters, Alexanderplatz
Key location
Inspector Gereon Rath arrives from Cologne on a secret mission and meets Charlotte Ritter, a clerk who dreams of becoming a detective.
Stop 2: Moka Efti, Friedrichstraße
In the glittering Moka Efti, dancers, gangsters and conspirators share the same floor, and Charlotte earns extra money after hours.
Stop 3: Wedding, Berlin
Charlotte and Gereon are caught up in the police crackdown on banned Communist May Day marches in the working-class districts.
What really happened
Based on Volker Kutscher's Gereon Rath novels, the series begins in Berlin in 1929, a city of four million with a thriving nightlife, deep poverty and violent street politics. Communists, Nazis and nationalist officers of the secret 'Black Reichswehr' all plotted against the fragile republic, while the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 plunged Germany into mass unemployment.
The series mixes fiction with real events: the 'Blutmai' police crackdown on Communist May Day marchers in 1929, the secret rearmament that Germany carried out in the Soviet Union, the Nazi party's internal struggles and its rise to power in 1933. Its famous Moka Efti nightclub was a real coffee house and dance palace on Friedrichstraße.
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Full details
- Original title
- Babylon Berlin
- Created by
- Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Henk Handloegten
- Countries
- Germany
- Languages
- German
- Seasons
- 5 seasons
- Released
- 2017
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Western Europe
- Themes
- Politics
- Espionage
