Just when I start to think(Again)
that Net flicks is a politically correct pile of junk, they introduce something
brilliant like Babylon Berlin, a German neo-noir television series. (Based on
novels by German author Volker Kutscher.)
This remarkably well written,
well-acted and beautifully photographed series takes place in Berlin during the
Weimar Republic, starting in 1929. It follows Gereon Rath, (Volker Bruch) a
police inspector on assignment from Cologne who is on a secret mission to
dismantle an extortion ring, and Charlotte Ritter, (Liv Lisa Fries) police
clerk by day, flapper by night, who is aspiring to become a police inspector.
Actor Peter Kurth is wonderful, I’ll
use the word brilliant again, actor who portrays Detective Chief Inspector Bruno Wolter, a
Berlin Police investigator, Kurth is so good at his craft, he had me cheering
on the bad guy. Matthias Brandt is splendid as
Councillor August Benda, a Jewish Social Democrat and the head of the Berlin
Political Police.
I can't recommend this series enough.