- "Germany from Above" invites the audience to fly over German cities, its countryside and waters, offering an unusual perspective: from above. A series in 4 seasons with each 3 episodes, plus an accompanying movie and a winter special.
- The third episode of "Germany From Above 4" leads us to water. Germany's seas and rivers hide surprises that can be detected best from above. Nevertheless, the episode's golden thread is a steam train convention, which is held in Dresden in Saxony, East Germany. We accompany one beauty of a historic steam train "01" all the way from the Lake Constance and the Rhine River in the South West, passing the German rivers Danube and Main, and half a dozen more rivers, before we are finally reaching the big Elbe river in Dresden. A romantic train journey through the biggest part of Germany. Ferries and cargo ships cross the Baltic Sea today. Yet, a very active trading network existed there already 2000 years ago. The Baltic Sea is he world's largest underwater ship cemetery and we reveal what still lies on the sea bed in an animation. Tourists concentrate on the coasts of the Baltic Sea. Yet, its hinterland offers some of the most beautiful and wildest landscapes in Germany, especially along the Peenestrom channel. An endless number of birds nest in endless marshland. Boars and deer can be detected in the meadows - especially when you look at them from above. From this perspective the Kieler Woche, the biggest sailing event in the world in the North German Kiel is really a breath taking event. Water has always created landscapes and water still shapes them. Over 150 million years ago, the "Franconian Suisse" was building the bottom of the sea. When the waters ran off, the rocks remained, exposed to weathers in the damp air. Today these impressive rocks are very popular not only among climbers. In the rivers and creeks trouts and graylings breed naturally. The Rhine, Germany's longest river, on the contrary, has been constrained over the centuries into a new, straight river bed. There are just a few areas where the Rhine's bights can still be seen, for instance at the Rhine water meadows of the so called "Baden Jungle" From the air, it looks like paradise on earth - yet it is also the breeding ground of an annoying plague: mosquitoes. A specially developed bacteria is spread from mini helicopters to fight them, without poisoning the environment. Among the greatest beauties of Germany are the two steep and narrow gorges of the alpine rivers Breitach and Partnach in Bavaria. For "Germany From Above 4" we are filming with a drone, squeezing along the very tight escarpments and we flew with a helicopter between the vertical walls of the two gauges with their roaring and ice-cold rivers.
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