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The German Netflix project “Tribes of Europa” takes us to a post-apocalyptic Europe in 2074. After a total blackout in December 2029, the world is shrouded in darkness.

There is anarchy.

Humanity has regressed to a tribal society, to a life according to many different principles and beliefs.

You join a tribe of the Origines, a small group that has withdrawn into the forest and lives in harmony with nature.

The three young Origines siblings Liv (Henriette Confurius), Elja (David Ali Rashed) and Kiano (Emilio Sakraya) are marauding happily across a clearing when an airplane of the highly developed Atlantians civilization crashes over them.

It quickly turns out that the plane was shot down by another tribe, the power-seeking Crows, because they wanted to get to the advanced technologies of the Atlantians.

But because Elja found the wounded pilot and got a mysterious cube from him, the Crows slaughter almost all of the Origines in search of that very cube.

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Only Elja can escape with the dice.

Liv is left behind, the remainder captured.

The story is picking up speed: while Elja is looking for the Atlantic Ark with the help of the cube, the wounded Liv is picked up by the Crimson tribe.

Kiano is brought as a slave to the capital of the Crows, a dystopian Berlin.

Wants to free her family: Henriette Confurius as Liv in "Tribes of Europe"

Source: Gordon Timpen / Netflix

That dystopian Berlin is called Brathok in “Tribes of Europa”, is run in an authoritarian manner and is a babel of sin and epidemics.

Slaves produce the chemical drug Wolk on the assembly line.

Cloud trading is the city's main industry.

The conditions in the factories are cruel, while the Crows spend most of their time listening to techno, having sex and massacring anyone who they consider to be inferior.

Liv also wants to go to Brathok to free the rest of her family.

To do this, she needs the help of the Crimsons, a military tribe that is over dead bodies for peace in Europe.

The European Union, say the Crimsons, was once a great idea, greater than its implementation.

That should kindly change.

The German series problem

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“Tribes of Europa” is the latest major Netflix project.

The studios that produced the series were also responsible for the success of "Dark".

The screenplay was written by Philipp Koch, the creator of the last controversial feature film “Picco” that was discussed in Cannes.

“Tribes of Europa” does not make too much of its possibilities.

Maybe because there were too many of them.

Rarely has a series been created for at least three seasons without a major advertising lead.

The first six episodes seem like an over-ambitious prologue.

Countless threads of action are laid out without connecting.

Without a second season they came to nothing.

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“Tribes of Europa” had to put up with the charge of copying a famous scene from “The Walking Dead”.

The similarities of the scene in question are indeed unmistakable.

"The Walking Dead" is not the only template.

You come across borrowings from “Mad Max” and “Hunger Games”.

Despite all of this, the backdrop looks as if there wasn't enough money in the end.

Despite all the criticism, “Tribes of Europa” is a series that one would like to keep watching.

Because of the actors.

Henriette Confurius above all.

The series does not deal with socially critical thoughts in a subtle way, but if only because it takes up such thoughts at all, it is worth it: The blackout that paralyzes civilization reminds us of our fatal dependence on electricity and the technologies associated with it.

We know crows who flirt with the barbarism of dictatorships in order to subdue the continent.

And we know Crimsons with more noble motifs for the renaissance of the old European idea, but with questionable means.

“The idea of ​​Europe will never die,” barks a Crimson officer.

Not only was the Middle Ages dark, the future will also be dark: Scene from "Tribes of Europe"

Source: Gordon Timpen / Netflix

Then there are the Femen, a female Amazon people, and the Origines, who, until they were almost destroyed, seemed to be the happiest, in harmony with nature.

The moral of the series: If man does not come to himself, mankind falls apart and is thrown back on its tribes and tribal conflicts.

You just don't know what the Crimson really want - a strong European Union or maybe none.