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.
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.
Casts:
Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Leonie Benesch, Mišel Maticevic, Lars Eidinger, Hannah Herzsprung, Peter Kurth, Christian Friedel, Thomas Thieme, Benno Fürmann, Matthias Brandt, Fritzi Haberlandt, Karl Markovics, Jens Harzer, Jördis Triebel, Ronald Zehrfeld, Severija Janušauskaitė, Waléra Kanischtscheff, Dmitri Alexandrov, Anton von Lucke, Meret Becker, Ernst Stötzner, Денис Бургазлиев, Ivan Shvedoff, Henning Peker
Air Time:
8:15 pm
Country:
DE
Air Day:
Friday
Labels:
period drama
historical
historical drama
costume drama
neo-noir
1920s
1930s
european history
german history
weimar republic
modern history
dramatic
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