It was a gigantic and controversial project: 40 millions of euros to the cost of the first two seasons of “Babylon Berlin”and were the most expensive German series project of all time. New is also the first and quite risky cooperation between the ARD and the pay – TV broadcaster Sky, emitting the a total of 16 episodes starting in October of last year-was very much to the displeasure of the fee payer. However, the success was huge. The ARD has not yet been announced prior to the TV broadcast of the third season. Also, a fourth season to give it. Here’s what we know so far to read.

what time is it?

when the third season aired is not yet known. The filming should begin in the autumn in Berlin and surrounding areas, as well as in North Rhine-Westphalia. Currently, the Directors work announced your and authors Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten and Achim von Borries to the rotary books for the coming consequences, such as the ARD.

How many episodes there will be?

Ten episodes will comprise the third season of “Babylon Berlin”. The story of the first two seasons, was told about six of the ten episodes (season 1 and 2, each with eight episodes à 45 minutes).

Who is (again)?

The main cast Volker Bruch as a morphine addict Commissioner Gereon Rath and Liv Lisa Fries as a stenographer, and occasional prostitute Charlotte knights, is later, Rath’s assistant in the homicide, according to the ARD, also in the third season. In addition, no other actors and roles have been confirmed.

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What is there to go?

The third season of “Babylon Berlin” will be based on the novel “The silent death” by Volker Kutscher. The action begins ten months after the events in “The wet fish” – the first book to Commissioner Rath, the first two season of the series is based. Rath needs to determine this Time on a film set, to come to a well-known actress to death, beaten to death by a spotlight. It was an accident – or murder?

While the drug already in the first two seasons of “Babylon Berlin”, a big room revenue, to the topic of drugs in the continuation of the series thought to be possibly expanded, such as Tom Tykwer has said in the autumn of 2017 the “Hollywood Reporter”. It Celtabet is therefore in season three and four to the mass distribution of Heroin, the end of the twenties and the beginning of the thirty years to even be available in pharmacies, as well as to Experiments with methamphetamines.

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coachman “The silent death” is the second of a total of seven books, dedicated to the author so far as his Commissioner Rath. Plenty of material for more seasons of “Babylon Berlin” is so there.

Liv Lisa Fries (Charlotte knights)

What “Babylon Berlin”?

The first two seasons of play at the time of the world economic crisis of the twenty years in Berlin. The morphine-dependent Commissioner Gereon Rath and the stenographer Charlotte knights, who, in the course of the plot to his assistant, in their joint investigation between the fronts: There is the “black Reichswehr”, the secret para-military organization, which rehearses in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and the rearmament of Germany, including chemical warfare agents.

furthermore, a Trotskyist struggle Association, to draw a railway wagon full of Gold over the Berlin railroad to Russia, to Finance the counter-revolution. And in the middle of the gangster king (Misel Maticevic), who leaves his glamorous dance hall Moka Efti, all dancing together: the Morphini, who have not recovered from Yesterday, the big man, the addict, the of a doubt to dream in the Morning. It morphine is swallowed, Opium is injected, it is the absinthe drips on the sugar cube. A wonderful, double-bödiger, a painful, powerful noise.

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The high-gloss series have given the ARD and the subscription platform Sky together in order. The media promotion of North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin-Brandenburg have already said subsidies in the millions.

The global response to “Babylon Berlin” have exceeded all expectations, said co-producer of Christine Strobl, ARD-film subsidiary Degeto. The production was sold in more than 90 countries and a number of prizes prize, among other things, the German TV Grimme-award and the Magnolia Award of Shanghai TV festival.

note: In a first Version of the article we had written, the title of the first Gereon-Rath-book by Volker Kutscher loud “wet death”. The correct title is “The wet fish”. We will have this corrected in the Text.

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