TV series

Wolf Among Wolves

1965 · 1 season

A slow, sober plunge into desperation and class divide, watching ordinary people claw for survival behind a brittle facade.

Overview: The living conditions during the period of inflation in the early 1920s are depicted in a fascinating way. Behind a shiny façade, ordinary people struggle for bare survival. Opposite them stand landowners and former military personnel with their complacency, ignorance, and emptiness! The title character, Wolfgang Pagel—a cadet officer, unemployed and a gambler out of desperation—loses everything on the night before his wedding and sets out in search of money in the inflation-ridden Berlin of the 1920s.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, tense and satirical. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Class, survival, greed, power
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Full breakdown

Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
survival
greed
power
betrayal
Places: big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild