BERLIN — Described as continental Europe’s most expensive show ever, epic crime drama “Babylon Berlin” will bow on Sky’s streaming service on Jan. 24, now set in 1929, with a new murder myst…
” will bow on Sky’s streaming service on Jan. 24, now set in 1929, with a new murder mystery, based on “The Silent Death”, the second novel in Volker Kutscher’s trilogy, though the same intent: To trace with large artistic ambition yet historical accuracy the origins of Nazism.
It’s no easy feat to examine the past. At a press conference this week in Berlin, all three directors stressed their sense of the responsibility as the series has become a point of reference -yes, that is the scale of the show- for Germany’s collective ideas about the Weimar Republic. Showrunners and cast alike pointed out at the press conference that one of the strengths of the series lies in its humanizing of characters. Pointedly, Von Borries remarked that the show scarcely has figures in National Socialist uniform: “If you have Nazis in uniforms, what can you say? Everything is said, already there. They are very bad people, have no inner life, they’re like robots.”
This revisit of German cinema recalls Sigfried Kracauer’s classic study “From Caligari to Hitler” in which the exiled German author went as far to argue that the rise of fascism was embedded in a collective subconscious: Signs of it could be found in the cinema of the time.
As with the series’ and current times develop, it’s getting easier, moreover, to draw parallels between its time and ours: Both epochs of immense uncertainty as of technological and sociological breakthroughs, as the emancipation of women gathers pace, – an issue further developed by the series.
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