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Uneasy times

Between the world wars, Germany was a place where extreme political ideas and economic turmoil fed into new and subversive forms of artistic expression. This febrile atmosphere is captured magnificently in Babylon Berlin, the critically acclaimed German drama set during the Weimar Republic, now in its third season.

This latest series recently aired on Sky Atlantic and has now been released on DVD and digitally. It picks up the story in 1929, in the weeks leading up to the Wall Street

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