Tilly Brooks tells Rath that she saw a ghost-like man in a cloak when the spotlight fell and confesses to Charlotte that she overheard Winter argue with her husband, co-star Tristan Rot, about going to America. Other interior scenes in the police headquarters were filmed in the historic Robert-Koch-Forum [ de]. At the set of a new sound film, a hooded figure boobytraps a spotlight, which falls and kills the film's star, Betty Winter. The 16 episodes of the first two seasons were adapted by Tykwer, von Borries and Handloegten from the novel Der nasse Fisch ( The Wet Fish) (2008) by Volker Kutscher [8] and were filmed over eight months beginning in May 2016. The character of Seegers is based on the biography of Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, see Ralf Hoffrogge (3 December 2020).

Henning and Czerwinski incapacitate the Armenian gang with anaesthetic gas while Bruno starts the train. Greta arms the bomb and tries to flee Berlin but changes her mind as she runs into Fritz at the train station, now dressed in a Sturmabteilung (SA) uniform. Soon his inquiries drag him ever deeper into the morass of Weimar Berlin’s ‘Roaring Twenties’ underworld of cocaine, prostitution, gunrunning, and shady politics. Arndt, one of Moritz's friends from the Tietz rooftop, sees Wendt riding by a gay cruising site in a park and recognizes him.In a January 2020 interview with Berliner Zeitung, actress Liv Lisa Fries said that production would likely begin on the fourth season in late 2020 or early 2021.

Back in the present, Ulrich shows Rath that Weintraub's fingerprints are on the knife that was discovered, but Charlotte is not convinced as the attacker wore gloves. Esther has the idea of the film's plot changing so that the main character is a 'man-machine', so that she can play her, thereby completing the film's shoot; she also helps Weintraub hide and recover at the studio. The first release consisted of a continuous run of 16 episodes, with the first eight officially known as Season 1, and the second eight known as Season 2. Gereon confides in Charlotte that he was placed in the SA as part of a secret plan by Chief Grzesinski, in hopes of eventually criminalizing the NSDAP.The series premiered on 13 October 2017 on Sky 1, a German-language entertainment channel broadcast by Sky Deutschland. Babylon Berlin': The Brilliant And Captivating German Series Celebrated at the European Film Awards 2019". The showrunners chose to diverge from the source material to better address the social and political unrest during the time period as they felt that the Weimar Republic is often overlooked by both media and historical sources. Gereon Rath, a morphine addict and World War I veteran who worked as a police inspector in Cologne, is transferred to Berlin.

The character of Marie-Luise is based on the biography of Marie Luise von Hammerstein, see Ralf Hoffrogge (3 December 2020). Gereon and Bruno celebrate the success of the investigation but the Armenian's contacts drug Gereon.citation needed] As part of the arrangement, Sky broadcast the series first, and ARD started broadcasts by free-to-air television on 30 September 2018.