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Weimar cabarets, wartime trenches, a wall-split Berlin and reunification comedies — Germany's turbulent century made it essential territory for fiction. These ten works are the landmarks; StoryTerra's map holds thousands more, filterable by city and by exact year.

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10 famous stories set in Germany

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Browse 606 books, 1,549 movies, 27 TV shows and 82 games set in Germany.

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds

The Weinstein Company-Universal Pictures-A Band Apart-Zehnte Babelsberg Film-Visiona Romantica-Peninsula Films
movie

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The…

Setting: France; GermanyTime Period: World War II
John Wick: Chapter 4

John Wick: Chapter 4

Thunder Road-87Eleven-Summit Entertainment-Studio Babelsberg
movie

With the price on his head ever increasing John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and…

Setting: Osaka, Japan; New York USA; Paris, France; Berlin, GermanyTime Period: 2023
Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War

Marvel Studios
movie

Following the events of Age of Ultron the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers causing two factions to side with Iron…

Setting: New York USA; Berlin, Germany; Lagos, Nigeria; Vienna, Austria; Siberia, RussiaTime Period: Contemporary
Fury

Fury

Columbia Pictures-QED International-LStar Capital-Le Grisbi Productions-Crave Films
movie

In the last months of World War II as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named 'Wardaddy' commands a Sherman tank called 'Fury' and its five-man crew on a…

Setting: GermanyTime Period: World War II
The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm

by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
book

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of…

Setting: GermanyTime Period: 1940
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Paramount Pictures-Lucasfilm Ltd.
movie

In 1938 an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it and the missing man is his…

Setting: Venice, Italy; Austria; Berlin, Germany; Hatay Province, TurkeyTime Period: 1938
Jojo Rabbit

Jojo Rabbit

Fox Searchlight Pictures-Defender Films-Czech Anglo Productions-TSG Entertainment-Piki Films
movie

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend…

Setting: Nazi GermanyTime Period: World War II
Dark

Dark

Jantje Friese
tvshow

A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.

Setting: GermanyTime Period: Contemporary 2017; Past Time Periods
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Warner Bros. Pictures-Village Roadshow Pictures-Silver Pictures-Wigram Productions-Lin Pictures
movie

There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.

Setting: London, UK; Switzerland; France; GermanyTime Period: 1891
The Great Escape

The Great Escape

The Mirisch Company-United Artists
movie

The Nazis exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted…

Setting: Nazi GermanyTime Period: World War II

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