Berlin, spring of 1929: a mega-city in uproar. Economy and culture, politics and gangland – everything is drastically changing. Speculation and inflation are already gnawing at the foundations of the budding Republic. Growing poverty and unemployment are in dramatic contrast to the excess and luxury of nightlife and the city’s extravagant creative energy during the end of the well known “Golden Twenties in Berlin”. Everyone struggles to survive: the economy, people, political parties, the entire republic. BABYLON BERLIN focuses on young Gereon Rath from Cologne – as yet unscathed and without any political convictions, we follow him in his effort to become a good policeman. Rath is fascinated with the vibrant atmosphere of the most American city in Europe, but also unnerved by the frequent raids on night clubs and brothels. He takes the first chance to find his way into a murder investigation which will bring him to right wing soldiers, exile Russian Communists and, in the end, back to his own family…BABYLON BERLIN is a police drama staged by a cast of characters who mirror the city’s various milieus, because homicides are everywhere: on the left, on the right, up above and down below. All this is told through the eyes of one of the most popular characters in current European crime fiction: Gereon Rath.All this will be told in a high-end TV-series with big players combining their forces. BABYLON BERLIN will be the first cooperation of this kind and scale between ARD and SKY Germany: A path-breaking premiere in the European film and media landscape.