BABYLON BERLIN SHOOTING IN NRW

It’s one of the most elaborate series projects in the history of German television: BABYLON BERLIN. Two whole seasons, with eight episodes each, which the directors Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries and Hendrik Handloegten are dividing up among themselves, will be produced in one go. After shooting began mid-May in Berlin, the crew moved to North Rhine-Westphalia at the end of September, where they will shoot for 30 days in Cologne, Krefeld, and Mülheim an der Ruhr. BABYLON BERLIN is based on the best-selling series by Volker Kutscher about the police inspector Gereon Rath who investigated during the late 1920s in Berlin.

Filming is to continue in the region until November, when Tom Tykwer’s crew will then return to Berlin. The series will broadcast on Sky in 2017, then on Germany’s pubcaster ARD in 2018. BABYLON BERLIN is being supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW with 1.5 million euros and produced by X Filme Creative Pool, ARD with Degeto and WDR, Sky and Beta Film.