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Ku'damm 56 (2016)

Ku'damm 56 poster
Directed by
Sven Bohse
Genre
drama television series
Country
Germany
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Rated
12
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 45 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A conservative dance-school owner in 1950s West Berlin runs a strict household with her three adult daughters. Post-war social changes and hidden family secrets force each of them to confront their own desires and the limits of their mother's control.

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What happens

Ku’damm 56 is a German television miniseries (three-part drama) set in West Berlin in 1956. It follows a conservative dance-school owner and her three adult daughters as post-war social change and unresolved personal histories disrupt their lives. It first aired on ZDF on 20, 21 and 23 March 2016. The miniseries was nominated for the Grimme-Preis in 2017. Ku’damm 56 was followed by sequel miniseries Ku'damm 59 (2018), Ku'damm 63 (2021) and Ku’damm 77 (2026). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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