Slowly the camera pans left in an eyeline match, to reveal nothing more than an innocuous tourism poster pasted to a Morris column, reading ‘Jeder einmal in Berlin’ – ‘Everyone should visit Berlin at least once’.
Suddenly something just left of the frame attracts his attention. 2 Gereon’s appearance – as he dons a fedora and matching camel trench coat – recalls Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, the classic noir detectives played by Humphrey Bogart, although Gereon’s demeanour is decidedly less hardboiled. Employing film noir’s iconography, street lamps partially illuminate the scene, leaving the pockets between them in deep shadow. 1 On the street, the low chatter of pedestrians and thrum of traffic reflect Berlin’s vibrant nightlife. There is a curious sequence towards the end of the first episode of Babylon Berlin (Sky1, Das Erste, 2017– ), when Detective Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) exits his office at the Police Headquarters, Rote Burg, Alexanderplatz.
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