FREE ON YOUTUBE Tom Tykwer - Babylon Berlin Season 1 

FREE ON YOUTUBE  But watch out; the second episode is missing and is summarized here at the end. - A train races through the night and is stopped by a burning tree, which crashes crosswise onto the tracks. Armed men, followers of Trotsky, storm out of the undergrowth. They take the uniforms of the decoy leaders and couple another freight car. The contents? Definitely subversive. The train crew is shot down in the head and the train moves towards Berlin. And don't all roads lead to Berlin during the 1920s? During the Weimar Republic, definitely! I think our Berlin today could not exist without the longing for this Berlin of the 20s. The most depraved and glamorous city in the world! Politically, sexually, socially one may use the image of the scissors. Berlin was the city of extremes. Hyperinflation, war invalids, poverty in the streets. The populist right is gaining power. Babylon Berlin almost seems like a contemporary series, right? Next to it there is the parallel world of nightclubs. The age of jazz. "Sexing" is what they call it - everybody with everybody. Berlin seems like a ticking bomb and we all know when it should explode. In the middle of it all we meet Inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch). Rath came to Berlin from Cologne. He is also a war veteran. Obviously he suffers from a post-traumatic stress disorder, which he tries to bear with small vials of morphine. There's not much we know about Rath yet. He works for Vice, delving deeper and deeper into the city's darkest secrets. Then we meet Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries), who catalogues murders in the police department during the day and descends halfway around the world at night. And the scenes in the night clubs are the greatest thing about Babylon Berlin (none other than Bryan Ferry excels as a songwriter and performer!) To revive the Berlin of the 20's they obviously made a lot of money! Quite incidentally, they invested in a whole range of German stereotypes - probably also in order to make the reference to the here & now clear again and again. The really big feelings I expect in such an epic are not given enough attention. But who knows; maybe I'm just not really hooked yet? Like Gereon Rath. - The first episode of the first season runs in good quality free on YouTube, only the second episode is missing! That's why I want to summarize it briefly: Gereon Rath interrogates the arrested porn producer. He collapses in the presidium in rehab. Charlotte Ritter rescues him by chance. In the evening Charlotte climbs into "Moka Efti". There Nikoros appears as a singer. But he doesn't appear to be who he says he is...

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