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Babelsberg Film Studios, 1929. A major new movie is in production when its star Krista Wolff suddenly disappears. The head of the studio and film's writer are desperate to find her. Each has their own reasons.

Ending up back where it started, Jonas Beck is holding the Babelsberg Studio boss Otto Lenz at gunpoint.

What's tipped him over the edge? Is it the fate of Krista Wolff or the rewrites to his script?

This suspenseful drama is set amid the creative ferment of 1920s Berlin, centred around Babelsberg Film Studio, the world's oldest large-scale film studio. Out of the darkness of military defeat, political chaos, poverty and hyperinflation springs the phenomenon of Weimar culture, a defiant celebration of humanity and artistic expression in all its diverse forms. People flock to Berlin to be a part of the cultural explosion. Writer Jonas Beck, actress Krista Wolff and war veteran Peter X are among them.

Jonas Beck ...... Paul Chahidi
Otto Lenz ...... Anton Lesser
Lottie ...... Clare Corbett
Barman ...... Carl Prekopp

Written by Nick Perry.

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast on 麻豆社 Radio 4 in July 2020.