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26 • LMGI COMPASS | Summer 2021 What guidance did the three directors—Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, Henk Handloegten—provide? It was important for them to make sure everyone was on the same page and felt their value as being part of the team. They wanted us to appreciate the experience, which would make it easier to pay attention to the little things and help us create this world we would be creating on the screen. "Please be nice to each other," they told us. "You will spend more time on this project than with your family and friends. For most of you, it will be the most intense and longest time you have ever worked on a project. So be especially nice to each other." In principle, everyone stuck to it! Now, more than 300 days of shooting are behind us, with almost 100 percent shot on location. The current team of the fourth season is almost identical to the previous one, and everyone is looking forward to working together again. That is not a matter of course, with the mammoth tasks and problems that had to be mastered. The show is di‚erent, beautiful and evil at the same time and also up to date in a figurative sense. The fourth season will li‡ and expand this feeling to another level. We're two years later in the passage of time and evil is gaining power. Could you explain further? The series is a great reflection of the turmoil at the end of the Weimar Republic: ups and downs, progress and decline, beauty and the ugly face of hatred and poverty. At this time, it was still not decided in which direction the predominant liberal society would go. In all the bad we see, there is still a hope, there is still beauty that can be found despite the evil. The two main characters, police officer inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) and police clerk and future homicide detective Charlotte (Liv Lisa Fries), capture this mood in a great way. As was customary at the time, drugs were used and celebrated with an impartial ease. In the previous seasons, we were able to shoot wild, beautiful party scenes at the Club Holländer and the Moka Efti that are in stark contrast to the violence and political dangers. But even back then, the rush had its downsides: Charlotte sells her body, drugged in the basement of Moka. Rath is struggling hard with addiction. The lines between what is right and what is wrong disappear quickly at the beginning of the first episode. This spiral down toward a violent end of the republic accelerates in the fourth season when several characters we think we know have their morals tested to the extreme. We will see people think they are doing the right thing when we know they are not, and we will be witness to the downfall of others who thought of themselves as invincible. You go on a journey with the series and throw your moral compass overboard. Talk about the title and how it may have influenced your location choices. This Berlin is a juggernaut. Sin, corruption and violence lurk around every corner, as in the myth of a biblical city. In fact, modern Berlin was often inspired by an ancient metropolis in the first decades of the 20th century. The influence ranged from the architecture and ornamentation of art nouveau to the naming of the Babylon Cinema, which opened in 1929. The Bärensaal Stock Exchange building (after) Bärensaal (Bear Hall) in the Altes Stadthaus (before)