‘Babylon Berlin’s’ Fifth and Final Season Is Now Shooting
The fifth and final season of the global hit series “Babylon Berlin” has started shooting, and Beta Film has released a first-look image of lead Volker Bruch’s (“Generation War”) Weimar-era police investigator Gereon Rath on set.
In its first four seasons, “Babylon Berlin” sold to more than 140 territories and was watched more than 94 million times on Germany’s ARD Mediathek alone. Among its laundry list of awards, the series won the inaugural European Achievement in Fiction Series Award at the European Film Awards, four German Television Awards, the Grand Prize at the Seoul International Drama Awards, the Austrian Television Award Romy as “TV Event of the Year,” the Premios Ondas in Spain and the Magnolia Award of the Shanghai TV Festival.
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“Babylon Berlin’s” writing-directing team of Henk Handlogten, Achim von Borries and Tom Tykwer will return for the show’s final season, as will its leads Bruch and Liv Lisa Fries (“Freud’s Last Season”) to work together on one final investigation.
Based on Volker Kutscher’s fifth novel, “The March Fallen,” Season 5’s first set photo also came with a more detailed synopsis, which reads: “Berlin, January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes Reich Chancellor. As the end of the Weimar Republic looms, the darkest chapter in German history begins. On March 5, 1933, new elections will give Hitler’s party complete power. But in these five weeks preceding the election, every single person in Germany is faced with difficult decisions: to adapt, to risk open opposition, or to flee. And while Gereon disappears from the face of the earth, Charlotte digs deep into a mysterious case of a series of murders of former front-line soldiers. There are growing signs that there is a direct link to Gereon’s past – and that of the new Reich Chancellor…”
“Babylon Berlin” is produced by X-Filme Creative Pool in co-production with ARD Degeto, SWR, WDR, Radio Bremen and Beta Film in collaboration with RBB, funded by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as the German Motion Picture Fund.
The series is co-produced by Christoph Pellander and Carolin Haasis (ARD Degeto), Manfred Hattendorf and Monika Denisch (SWR), as well as Alexander Bickel and Caren Toennissen-Brand (WDR). Executive producers for X-Filme include Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott and Michael Polle, while Beta Film’s co-producers are Jan Mojto, Dirk Schürhoff and Moritz Herzogenberg.
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