Around her, dancers in banana skirts wiggle their bottoms, but she herself is a figure of androgynous elegance with a suit, top hat and mustache: the night club singer Svetlana Sorokina, who has a lover in German big business in Berlin in 1929, shares a common ground with Russian Trotskyists The show seems to be in the legendary dance palace Moka Efti. A mix of Mata Hari and Marlene Dietrich.
The Lithuanian actress, director and composer Severija Janusauskaite presents the fatalistic and yet euphoric mood of the social panorama "Babylon Berlin" with her song "To Ash, To Dust", about unleashing, erosion and political radicalization in the Berlin of the Weimar Republic tells.
An intoxicating series experience in 16 episodes, of which the first three were seen on Sunday in the first. We wrote: "An epoch piece that could not be more up-to-date." How do you rate the television event?
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