# Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood (2020)

> In 1900 Munich, a rich mobster's attempt to muscle into the city's brewing dynasties collides with his daughter's forbidden romance with a poor brewer's son.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/79497

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 48 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, crime
- Created by: Alexis Wittgenstein, Ronny Schalk, Christian Limmer
- Network: Das Erste
- Cast: Mišel Matičević, Martina Gedeck, Klaus Steinbacher, Mercedes Müller, Francis Fulton-Smith, Brigitte Hobmeier, Maximilian Brückner, Markus Krojer
- TMDB rating: 6.8/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10244612/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: brooding, melodramatic, tense, atmospheric, sensual

## What critics say

Audiences rate the miniseries as mixed, with its period setting and costume drama appreciated but its melodrama and mobster subplot viewed unevenly.

## Synopsis

Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood (2020) is a German historical crime miniseries created by Alexis Wittgenstein, Ronny Schalk and Christian Limmer for Das Erste. Set in Munich around 1900, it follows a rich mobster, Curt Prank (Mišel Matičević), who arrives in town determined to bully his way into the inner circle of the city's brewery dynasties. His daughter Clara Prank (Mercedes Müller) falls in love with a poor brewer's son, and her father's opposition turns the romance into a battleground of class, loyalty and ambition. The brewing families, led by Maria Hoflinger (Martina Gedeck) and Roman Hoflinger (Klaus Steinbacher), are drawn into a web of rivalries as the festival season approaches and the town's beer halls fill with money and menace. Across six episodes of roughly forty-eight minutes each, the series builds a tense, atmospheric portrait of a city where tradition, business and violence are tightly interwoven. Its tone is brooding and melodramatic, with moments of sensual warmth against a backdrop of crowded halls and simmering danger. Fans of Peaky Blinders, Babylon Berlin and The Crown will find resonance in its period detail, dynastic rivalries and criminal undercurrents.

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