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Deutschland 86

★ 7.6 6K votes 2018–2018 1 season · 10 episodes
EspionageSpies, intelligence agencies and double lives.This show: 9/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10Political intriguePower struggles inside governments and institutions.This show: 7/10Morally grayNo clean heroes or villains anywhere in sight.This show: 7/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Jonas NayMaria SchraderFlorence KasumbaSylvester GrothSonja GerhardtLavinia Wilson
Written by
Anna WingerJörg Winger
Starring
Jonas NayMaria SchraderFlorence KasumbaSylvester GrothSonja GerhardtLavinia Wilson
Written by
Anna WingerJörg Winger
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About

"Cold War idealism curdles into desperate global hustling"

The sequel to Deutschland 83 picks up East German spy Martin Rauch as his country's economy crumbles and its intelligence service turns to shady global arms and drug deals to keep the state solvent. The action shifts from Cold War Europe to Angola, Libya, and South Africa's apartheid frontlines. It keeps the original's stylish Eighties soundtrack and split-screen energy, but trades some espionage tension for a sprawling, globe-hopping plot that occasionally feels thinner than season one. Still a handsome, briskly paced watch about ideology curdling into pure survival.

Watch it for

the way it widens Cold War espionage into apartheid-era Africa and Libyan arms deals.

Maybe skip if

you wanted the tighter, more personal spy tension of the first season.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 1
7.73K107h 52m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Tar Baby7.4
32650 min
▶2Ommegang7.4
29246 min
▶3Dragon Rouge7.6
28445 min
▶4Le Cafard7.4
26547 min
▶5Green Book7.9
27649 min
▶6Tjello7.7
25845 min
▶7El Dorado Canyon7.8
25447 min
▶8Vula7.7
24947 min
▶9Chickenfeed8.0
25246 min
▶10Total Onslaught8.1
25650 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Jonas Nay Martin Rauch
Maria Schrader Lenora Rauch
Florence Kasumba Rose Seithathi
Sylvester Groth Walter Schweppenstette
Sonja Gerhardt Annett Schneider
Lavinia Wilson Brigitte Winkelmann
Ludwig Trepte Alex Edel
Alexander Beyer Tobias Tischbier
Fritzi Haberlandt Tina Fischer
Uwe Preuss Marcus Fuchs

Crew

Anna Winger
Jörg Winger

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