Beta Film announced today that Babylon Berlin, the hit German mystery-crime thriller series starring Volker Bruch and Liv Lisa Fries, is getting a fifth and final season.
Today’s news, heartily welcomed by international fans of the show, I’m sure, coincides with the premiere of the fourth season of Babylon Berlin in the US and Canada, courtesy of the international TV-focused streaming service, MHz Choice. (Read about it here.)
Babylon Berlin is based on Volker Kutscher’s best-selling “Gereon Rath Mysteries” novels, with Season 5 adapted from the fifth and final book in the series, The March Fallen. Set in the darkest period of German history, the upcoming season dives deep into the dreadful month of February 1933 and its consequences: the transfer of power of the NSDAP, aka the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, aka the Nazi Party.
Said the series’ writers and directors, Henk Handloegten, Achim von Borries, and Tom Tykwer:
“In the final season of BABYLON BERLIN, we put February 1933 under the magnifying glass: rarely has a society been torn apart more radically in such a short period of time than Germany in this chaotic month. Not only Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter – but all our protagonists also must realize that they only have a few options left: subordinate themselves, risk their lives in open opposition, retreat into inner emigration or flee into exile. However, this decisive month also opens the possibility of changing the course of history at the last second.”
The directing-writing trio of Henk Handlogten, Achim von Borries and Tom Tykwer will return for the eight-episode final season, as well as Volker Bruch (Generation War) and Liv Lisa Fries (The Wave), who will reprise their roles of Gereon Rath and Charlotte Ritter for the last time.
Shooting is set for October 2024, pending the approval of the ARD committees.
An internationally-celebrated series, Babylon Berlin has been sold to more than 140 territories, won numerous awards from major TV and film festivals and organizations from across the globe, and been praised by international media (including this one).
Babylon Berlin is a production of X-Filme Creative Pool in co-production with ARD Degeto, SWR, WDR, Radio Bremen, and Beta Film. It is co-produced by Christoph Pellander and Carolin Haasis (ARD Degeto), Manfred Hattendorf and Monika Denisch (SWR), and Alexander Bickel and Caren Toennissen-Brand (WDR). Executive producers for X-Filme are Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott, and Michael Polle; co-producers for Beta Film are Jan Mojto, Dirk Schürhoff, and Moritz Herzogenberg.
Stay tuned for updates.
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Stream Babylon Berlin in the US & Canada
5-book “Gereon Rath Mysteries” series by Volker Kutscher
The March Fallen by Volker Kutscher
