Babylon Berlin

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.

Network: Sky 1
Country: Germany
Release date: 2017-10-13
Official Sites: babylon-berlin.com
IMDb Rating: 8.4
Akas: Babilon Berlin,
Cast
Volker Bruch
Gereon Rath
Liv Lisa Fries
Charlotte Ritter
Leonie Benesch
Greta Overbeck
Mišel Maticevic
Edgar der Armenier
Lars Eidinger
Alfred Nyssen
Hannah Herzsprung
Helga Rath
Peter Kurth
Bruno Wolter
Thomas Thieme
Karl Zörgiebel
Benno Fürmann
Oberst Gottfried Wendt
Matthias Brandt
August Benda
Fritzi Haberlandt
Elisabeth Behnke
Karl Markovics
Samuel Katelbach
Dr. Anno Schmidt
Jördis Triebel
Ronald Zehrfeld
Walter Weintraub
Severija Janušauskaitė
Svetlana Sorokina
Waléra Kanischtscheff
Dmitri Alexandrov
Grigori Selenskij
Anton von Lucke
Stephan Jänicke
Esther Kasabian
Ernst Stötzner
Major General Kurt Seegers
Денис Бургазлиев
Colonel Trochin
Ivan Shvedoff
Alexej Kardakow
Henning Peker