Giveaway: Babylon Berlin
Up for grabs this week is detective noir series, the most expensive German drama ever made.
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Up for grabs in this Friday’s newsletter are 3 copies of Babylon Berlin S4 on DVD thanks to Acorn Media.
The German detective noir series is the most expensive and successful German drama ever made.
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Babylon Berlin S4 is set in 1930’s Berlin, just after the Golden Twenties culminated in the global stock market crash and the Great Depression – and the Nazis’ march to power is in full swing. The story centres on detective Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch), and his ambitious colleague Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries). As Gereon’s investigations lead him into the boxing milieu – and politically, uncomfortably close to Hitler’s militant supporters – Charlotte risks her job to help her homeless sister, who roams the streets of Berlin with a group of young peers, fighting for survival.
Release Date: June 5, 2024
Run Time: 564 minutes
Rating: MA15+ – Strong themes, sex scenes and violence
DVD RRP: $34.95
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3 Responses
Thoroughly enjoying season 4 on SBS Demand. My only criticism is waiting four years to see S4 and trying to remember former plot lines and certain faces. Thankfully SBS has brought it to our screens so we get to continue watching a series we loved during those Covid times.
I’m about two thirds through season 4 of Berlin Babylon which features the early political machinations of the Nazis and the poor economic state that Germany was in during the 1930’s, and plainly this series still has some way to go historically. Even though the rhythm can be slow the production (especially in Berlin) is of a high cinema quality standard and captures the dark 30’s austerity era very well. Though unlikely due to cost constraints the ‘Babylon’ series has the potential to continue for another three seasons.
It’s been renewed for S5. The production values are high and the first 16 episode moved very fast but overall it’s very uneven. The writing and editing of the ending to those eps was dreadful. They spent 30 minutes drowning Lotte, then rescuitating her with anoxic brain damage, then had her magically get better after 1 night in hospital. This was spread across 2 episodes. They had a rail carriage made out of Gold which would be like making one out of lead, incredibly heavy and structurally unsound and would need about 30% of all the gold that has been dug up in the last 30,000 years. Then they had a matrix style shoot out on top of a moving train where everyone was suddenly bullet proof for some reason. S3 isn’t slow it’s glacial and I gave up after 2 episodes. I didn’t look at S4 why what a story where the Nazi’s are going to win.