Babylon Berlin

Babylon Berlin (2017-2026)
Seasons: 5, episodes: 48
Das Erste, Sky One
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Creators
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Volker Kutscher
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Actors
Photo Volker Bruch
Volker Bruch
Gereon Rath
Photo Liv Lisa Fries
Liv Lisa Fries
Charlotte Ritter
Photo Leonie Benesch
Leonie Benesch
Greta Overbeck
Photo Lars Eidinger
Lars Eidinger
Alfred Nyssen
Photo Benno Fürmann
Benno Fürmann
Günter Wendt
Photo Mišel Matičević
Mišel Matičević
Edgar 'The Armenian' Kasabian
Photo Ronald Zehrfeld
Ronald Zehrfeld
Walter Weintraub
Photo Meret Becker
Meret Becker
Esther Kasabian
All actors and roles (10)

Short description

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.

Seasons

SeasonEpisodesRelease dateRating
Season 1
Season 1
A Soviet freight train's hijacking leads a haunted cop and a poor typist to uncover a political conspiracy amid the vice and glamour of 1929 Berlin.
8 2017-10-13 6.7
Season 2
Season 2
Inspectors Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter investigate the death of a Hollywood actress during the filming of a big budget European blockbuster, only to uncover a twisted underworld plot.
8 2017-11-10 7
Season 3
Season 3
Weeks before Wall Street's 1929 crash, Rath and Charlotte investigate an actress's suspect death, while Greta is tried and the Black Reichswehr regroup.
12 2020-01-24 6.4
Season 4
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.
12 2022-10-08 6.8
Season 5
Season 5 is based on Kutscher’s novel "The March Fallen". It's set during the last days of the German republic, running from February 1933, just after Adolf Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor of Germany, through March 5, when a violent campaign against his political opponents secured his absol…
8 2026-09-10 6.3

What's left behind the scenes

  • The freight car numbers are AB2305 and TY1113. The digits encode the birthdays of the series' creators, Tom Tykwer (May 23) and Achim von Boris (November 13).
  • At the time of its release, it was the most expensive non-English language series.
  • The term "serial killer" was coined and entered common usage only in the 1970s.
  • The closed-chest cardiac massage technique was developed in 1960; in 1956 and 1947, only mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration was used.

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