Desc: 1929 - Das Jahr Babylon: Directed by Volker Heise. With Peter Kurth, Fritzi Haberlandt, Leonie Benesch, Anton von Lucke. The year 1929 is the year of "Babylon Berlin". "1929 - The Year Babylon" tells the twelve months as a year of decisions. Land and city are on the edge, the future is open, nobody knows where the journey is going. The First World War has been over for a good ten years, the defeat not understood, the Republic a permanent state of emergency.