Synopse
Babylon Berlin is based on the series of best-selling books by Volker Kutscher which began with Der nasse Fisch and follow the investigations of Inspector Gereon Rath in 1920s Berlin: a curiosity cabinet of drugs and politics, art and murder, emancipation and extremism.The young inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) is transferred from Cologne to Berlin to solve a case in the nightclub scene run by the local Mafia. What at first glance seems to be a simple case of blackmail turns out to be a scandal which will change Gereon's life. Together with the murder squad's shorthand typist Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) and his partner Bruno Wolter (Peter Kurth) Rath soon finds himself in a tangle of corruption, drugs and arms dealing which puts him in an existential conflict between loyalty and truth. Who is his friend and who his enemy?
Info
Original Title: Babylon Berlin
International Title: Babylon Berlin
Category: Series
Section: 16:9 Fernsehen im Kino
Version & Subtitles: German OV
Director: Tom Tykwer, Hendrik Handloetgen, Achim von Borries, Henk Handloegten
Screenplay: Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten
Cast/Protagonists: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Peter Kurth, Leonie Benesch, Severija Januškaitė, Lars Eidinger, Mišel Matičević, Fritzi Haberlandt, Jördis Triebel, Christian Friedel, Hannah Herzsprung, Benno Fürmann, Jeanette Hain, Marc Hosemann
Production country: Germany
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 90 min
Producer: Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott, Michael Polle, Jan Mojto, Dirk Schürhoff, Moritz Herzogenberg
Production company: X Filme Creative Pool GmbH, ARD Degeto, Sky, Beta Film
Cinematography: Frank Griebe, Bernd Fischer, Philipp Haberlandt
Editor: Alexander Berner BFS, Antja Zynga BFS, Claus Wehlisch BFS
Music: Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek
Production Design: Uli Hanisch
World Sales: Beta Film
