'The Same Sky' is set in 1974 when despite the thawing of relations between East and West, its producer said Berlin was a 'hotbed of paranoia and spying, a covert frontline for both sides infiltrating every aspect of daily life.' 'Deutschland 86' will pick up the story of reluctant spook Martin Rauch's life three years on, the producers said. Only hours earlier, Amazon had announced that it would premiere the sequel to 'Deutschland 83'-the most successful German series of all time-on its streaming service.ĭespite being a relative flop at home, the RTL series about a wide-eyed East German border guard who is sent to spy on the West was a record-breaking hit abroad. The series, written by Paula Milne, the British Emmy-winner behind 'The Politician's Wife', got rave reviews after its premiere late Monday at MIPCOM, the world's biggest entertainment market in the French resort of Cannes. Netflix has snapped up 'Downfall' director Oliver Hirschbiegel's highly-rated new show 'The Same Sky' about a Stasi secret police agent sent on a 'Romeo mission' to seduce a middle-aged single mother working in an NATO eavesdropping station in West Berlin.
