‘Babylon Berlin’s’ Fifth and Final Season is Now Shooting
variety.comJamie Lang 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. “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.
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