10/27/2020. Shelved in the "TV Series" collection. Based on the "Gereon Rath" series of crime novels by Volker Kutscher. Starring: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Bruno Wolter, Peter Kurth, Matthias Brandt, Lars Eidinger.
Summary:
Babylon Berlin is one of the most critically acclaimed European television shows of the decade, a sumptuously paranoid thriller set in 1929 Berlin, a metropolis in turmoil. In Seasons 1 and 2, the glittering excesses of the city's nightlife sparkle while an army of the impoverished strives for a better life. Organized crime and political extremists take advantage, extending their power throughout the city. Gereon Rath, a young policeman from from out of town is transferred to the Berlin vice squad; Charlotte, a stenographer for the homicide department leads a double life in the city's cabarets, gaining valuable information for Rath's investigations. He is soon confronted with a tangled web of corruption as he is torn between loyalty and uncovering the truth. Then a freight train from the Soviet Union arrives, which appears to hold the key to political power--but is actually a deadly trap for anyone trying to approach it.
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