Broken windows in Jewish shops, marauding Naziscalmly looking at those who createsia police brutality. And all this – in the center of Berlin. This is what the capital looks like Germany in the new one cult german season languageseries “Babylon-Berlin”. Premiere fourth in a row everythingzone, the action of which takes place in 1931, and plot based on historical detective novel by a German writer Volker Kuchera (Volker coachman) “Goldstein: the third case Gereon Rate” (“Goldstein: Gereon Raths third Fall”), will be held today, September 20, in Berlin. On October 8, 2022, the episode will begin airing on the Sky One pay-per-view channel. In the public domain it will be shown on the first German television channel ARD in 2023.
Guest from across the ocean
The turn of the late 1920s – early 1930s. Sunset of the Weimar Republic. The protagonist of the series and main character published in 2010 historical detective cycle Volker Strengthera, commissioner police from Cologne Gereon War (geron Rath)arrives in Berlin. His task is to find a porn movie that is being blackmailed Mayor of Cologne Konrad AdenauerKonrad adenauer). In the course of the investigation, he has to deal with politics, mafia murder, drugs, extremism. Thus began the first season of the television series “Babylon-Berlin”.
Centralthought figuresthought fourth season of the series becomes jewish gangster Abraham”eh” Goldstein (Abraham “Abe” Goldstein)who was “under the gun” at the FBI. Summer 1931 yeara he pfishing to Berlin from Brooklyn. Police Inspector Gereon War it’s timekeep an eye on him. At first, the commissioner thinks that this exercise – boring. However soon he realizes how difficult and dangerous it will be.
While Rath is bored at his observation post in the fashionable Excelsior Hotel, where Goldstein is staying, the gangster sneaks out of the hotel unnoticed and recovers in the city, where he gets his weapons. From the hand of the “brown shirt” he saves an old Jewish man, and then hides with relatives. Later, the stormtrooper, who raised his hand to the old man, is killed, and they try to hang the blame for the murder on Goldstein. Rath follows the trail of the American, gradually realizing that the one he is hunting is not a criminal. As a result, the policeman and the gangster begin to cooperate and reveal one criminal gang. After that, thanks to the support of Rath, Goldstein returns to the United States.
Tangled story and mysterious hero
The characters of the fourth season of the series “Babylon-Berlin” are placed in the context of important historical events. It was a time when the economic crisis was aggravating in Germany, National Socialism was gaining strength, hostility towards Jews and representatives of other nationalities was growing, there were more and more violent street clashes between the NSDAP assault detachments and fighters of the German communist organization “Union of Red Front Soldiers” (” Rot Front”), and in the underground a struggle for supremacy between mafia groups raged.
The directors of the film are Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Henkrik Handloegten. Starring Volker Bruch. Babylon Berlin became the most expensive German TV series of all time. Already the first season has become the most budget series in the history of German cinema according to the results of filming: 40 billion euros. The audience success is no less incredible: as of the end of December 2020, the first three seasons of the film have received over 40 million views. Which, however, is not surprising: neo-noir was chosen as the style of the film, and this is a gloomy atmosphere, an intricate story, a mysterious protagonist. Such a “cocktail” always tickles the viewer’s nerves and chains him to the screen.
Filming fourth season of the ambitious series “Babylon-Berlin” took place in Berlin and its environs, as well as in the federal North Rhine-Westphalia.
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