Season 5 behind-the-scenes filming!
As filming for the fifth and final season is now underway, a few articles and images have surfaced this week that offer a taste of *what* is being filmed: a demonstration led by SPD chairman and outspoken critic of Hitler Otto Wels (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/otto-wels). Click the link below for an English translation of the first article.
Hakenkreuz-Plakate kleben am Berliner Dom. Was hier los ist? Es sind die Dreharbeiten für die neue Staffel von „Babylon Berlin“.
For the second article, from the Nov 13 edition of Berliner Morgenpost (someone posted this to a major Babylon Berlin Facebook group), I’ve translated it (with a little help from DeepL):
What are swastikas doing at Berlin Cathedral? Lots of onlookers at new filming for Babylon Berlin
Signs with swastikas are raised to the left and right of the cathedral. On them, a large “Yes” and the words “With Adolf Hitler for equality and peace.” The demonstrators on the steps of the cathedral wave red SPD posters in the air and chant “We are the Social Democrats! Berlin, Berlin, Berlin remains red!” The old-fashioned water cannon parked in front of the e-scooters indicates that the scene is about to escalate. What looks like a ghostly vision from another time is actually filming for Babylon Berlin, which took place in front of the Berlin Cathedral on Tuesday morning. The fifth and final season of Babylon Berlin has been filming since October. The action takes place in February 1933 - at the time when the National Socialists came to power.
This time, ARD is working on the hit series Babylon Berlin without its former partner, Sky Deutschland. The trio of directors and writers from the previous seasons - Henk Handloegten, Achim von Borries and Tom Tykwer - are back. ARD Degeto Film, X Filme Creative Pool, SWR, WDR, Radio Bremen and Beta Film are producing.
The final season is based on the novel March Fallen by Volker Kutscher. The story takes place during the time of the transfer of power to the National Socialists. Leading roles will once again be played by Volker Bruch as Gereon Rath and Liv Lisa Fries as Charlotte Ritter.
Filming is hardly ever announced because the film crews want to work undisturbed by onlookers. However, this can’t be completely avoided at the Lustgarten at lunchtime. Tourists, school classes and passers-by stand still, watching how the extras jump up and down to keep warm during the breaks in filming. Or how the hose from the artificial fog machine bounces uncontrollably on the asphalt when a gust of wind comes. The onlookers take photos and selfies. A group of Dutch boys ride past on rental bikes. One of them shouts “Kijk, daar is een swastika (“Look, there’s a swastika”)!” and points to the swastika poster. When the director calls out “Quiet, we're shooting!” and he rallies the demonstrators with the “Berlin stays red” slogan, all the onlookers are quiet.
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