Vienna Blood (TV series)


Vienna Blood is a 2019 British-Austrian psychological thriller television series set in Vienna, Austria in the 1900s. Based on the Liebermann novels by Frank Tallis, the series follows Max Liebermann, a doctor and student of Sigmund Freud, as he assists Police Detective Oskar Rheinhardt. By providing psychological insights into the subjects’ motives, they investigate disturbing murders with success. A continuing sub-theme is the growing anti-Semitism against the Liebermann family.
On 6 July 2020, Endor Productions and MR Film announced that a futher series had been jointly recommissioned by ORF, ZDF, BBC and PBS.

Cast

Main

Production

The series was filmed on location in Vienna and Lower Austria, beginning in October 2018. Locations included the Vienna State Opera house, as well as Schloss Grafenegg, the Vienna University Archive, the Natural History Museum, the Riesenrad, Palais Pallavicini, the Burggarten park, the Arsenal, Café Sperl, and Café Bräunerhof.
The series was a co-production of Endor Productions and MR Film.

Broadcast

The series of three ninety-minute episodes was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two between 18 November and 2 December 2019. Austrian channel ORF 2 aired the show beginning 20 December 2019
In the United States, PBS showed the series in six forty-five-minute episodes; broadcast began on 19 January 2020.