Babylon Berlin
(2017)
Regisseur:
Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Henk HandloegtenSchauspieler:
Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch, Waléra Kanischtscheff, Dmitri AlexandrovDie Serie „Babylon Berlin“ basiert auf den Gereon-Rath-Romanen von Volker Kutscher. Der Großstadtkrimi um Ermittler Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) spielt im Berlin der 1920er Jahre spielt. Die erste Staffel behandelt den ersten Band „Der nasse Fisch“. Dieser ist 1929 angesiedelt und führt den von Köln nach Berlin gekommenen Kommissar über den Fall einer unidentifizierbaren Leiche in die Welt des organisierten Verbrechens. Auch tun sich Verbindungen zu einem geplanten Militärputsch oppositioneller Exilrussen auf. Ein Wettlauf um Gold und Waffen beginnt. Liv Lisa Fries wird die Rolle der Stenografin Charlotte Ritter übernehmen.
A metropolis in turmoil. From economy to culture, politics to the underworld – everything is in the grip of radical change.Speculation and inflation are already tearing away at the foundations of the still young Weimar Republic. Growing poverty and unemployment stand in stark contrast to the excesses and indulgence of the city's night life and its overflowing creative energy.Gereon Rath, a young police inspector from Cologne, is transferred to Berlin in order to solve a criminal case – a porno ring run by the Berlin Mafia. What at first glance appears to be simply a matter of extortion soon reveals itself to be a scandal that will forever change the lives of both Gereon and his closest associates.Together with stenotypist Charlotte Ritter and his partner Bruno Wolter, Rath is confronted with a tangled web of corruption, drug dealing, and weapons trafficking, forcing him into an existential conflict as he is torn between loyalty and uncovering the truth. And we are left wondering: in this story, who is friend and who is foe?With the political unrest spurred by May Day demonstrations and rising National Socialism, even an institution like the "Rote Burg," Berlin's police headquarters and the centre of democracy and the constitutional state, is increasingly becoming the melting pot of a democracy whose days are numbered.
A metropolis in turmoil. From economy to culture, politics to the underworld – everything is in the grip of radical change.Speculation and inflation are already tearing away at the foundations of the still young Weimar Republic. Growing poverty and unemployment stand in stark contrast to the excesses and indulgence of the city's night life and its overflowing creative energy.Gereon Rath, a young police inspector from Cologne, is transferred to Berlin in order to solve a criminal case – a porno ring run by the Berlin Mafia. What at first glance appears to be simply a matter of extortion soon reveals itself to be a scandal that will forever change the lives of both Gereon and his closest associates.Together with stenotypist Charlotte Ritter and his partner Bruno Wolter, Rath is confronted with a tangled web of corruption, drug dealing, and weapons trafficking, forcing him into an existential conflict as he is torn between loyalty and uncovering the truth. And we are left wondering: in this story, who is friend and who is foe?With the political unrest spurred by May Day demonstrations and rising National Socialism, even an institution like the "Rote Burg," Berlin's police headquarters and the centre of democracy and the constitutional state, is increasingly becoming the melting pot of a democracy whose days are numbered.
