PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON BARBARIANS EPIC TV SERIES WHICH BRINGS LEGENDARY 9TH CENTURY BATTLE OF TEUTOBURG TO NETFLIX NEXT WEEK!

 BARBARIANS TV SERIES

BRINGS BATTLE TO NETFLIX AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK

Barbarians arrive October 23rd!

Most of Europe's cinemas are being saved this year by domestic or European films while corona is wrecking chaos around the world (we've been able to watch a lot of Russian, French, Italian, Spanish hits this year here) and it is rather obvious that European series will save Autumn and Winter season on the small screens as well. Beside wonderful German Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood and French La Revolution which have already hit Netflix, another epic series that is hitting the streamer this month is BARBARIANS arriving also from Germany

Laurence Rupp is legendary Germanic chieftain Arminius

October 23rd with six episodes! You can check out the magnificent trailer below the plot of the series and tell us what you think!

     THE STORY OF BARBARIANS 

follows three people whose fates are interwoven in the legendary Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 A.D., during which Germanic warriors halt the spread of the Roman Empire. At the centre of this bloody clash are three childhood

The show will depict the incredible battle tactics of German tribes

friends who are linked by a tragic fate. They become the all-important force in the fight against the superior Roman power. Thier path is marked by loyalty and betrayal, love and hate - and ultimately proves to be a dramatic test of a friendship between three young people. The Cheruscan prince's daughter

Jeanne Goursaud and David Schutter play the lead roles

Thusnelda (Jeanne Goursaud) and the simple warrior Folkwin (David Schütter) are secretly a couple. But soon the two are challenged in a completely different way: the Roman occupiers under governor Varus (Gaetano Aronica) extort crushing tributes from the Germanic tribes, which

The series will stream in six hourlong episodes next week

hate each other too much to defend themselves together. Thusnelda and Folkwin decide to act on their own and humiliate the empire in a daring night-and-fog act. To avenge the shame he suffered, the Roman governor sends out

Barbarians has been a huge success for Netflix this month

his foster son. But the young Roman officer (Laurence Rupp) has a secret that connects him closely with Thusnelda and Folkwin. Torn between the two

Barbarians is first German Netflix original series

hearts that beat in his chest, the young man has to choose one side - and betray the other. The three become the driving force behind the uprising, which unites the quarrelling tribes into an army. Together they deliver a final battle to the superior Roman superpower, which will also change the lives of the three friends forever.