COLOGNE, Germany – Cloud Atlas director and producer team Tom Tykwer and Stefan Ardnt are developing a high-end TV series based on the best-selling Gereon Rath novels by German writer Volker Kutscher about a police detective in 1920s Berlin.
Directors Achim von Borries (Love in Thoughts) and Hendrik Handloegten (Learning to Lie) will adapt the Gereon Rath books with Tykwer and Arndt into a 12-part TV series titled Babylon Berlin. The series will be in German but will target the international market. Arndt and Tykwer's Berlin-based production shingle X Filme will produce the series.
Kutscher's novels follow the Cologne-born police detective Gereon Rath, who is transferred to Berlin and works to solve crimes in the turbulent German capital. The four novels published so far cover a period from 1929-1932, just before Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power and began World War II.
Ardnt suggested the novels provide sufficient material for several seasons of Babylon Berlin.
X Filme's project isn't the only series about 1920s Berlin in the pipeline. Leading German commercial network RTL and production group UFA Fiction will jointly develop a new period drama series set in 1920s Berlin. Just last week, German commercial network RTL and producers Ufa greenlit their own historic mini-series – Killing Berlin -- set in the same period.
German is coming a bit late to the boom in high-end TV drama but is moving fast to catch up with the trend that has swept Europe, producing cross-border hits such as Denmark's The Killing, Brit drama Broadchurch or French zombie thriller The Returned.
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