Berlin has become a city-state split in two, and under its dome the real predators are only getting started. City of Blood is a German-Spanish mystery-fantasy mini-series, available on K-Time with a Persian dub.
What is City of Blood about?
The series imagines a near-future Berlin that has walled itself off from a scorched world. Inside a climate-controlled dome, a small elite enjoys cool air and order; everyone else lives outside it, where heat, graft and street crime set the terms of daily life. Into this divided city step two sisters, Bea and Phoebe, who have spent years apart and are reunited under circumstances neither fully controls. As they work out what has happened to each other in the intervening time, they stumble onto something the city's rulers would prefer to keep hidden: vampires are no longer content to feed in the shadows and are moving to take political control. In a Berlin where blood has become a thing people trade for survival and influence, the sisters' discovery drags them into a contest over who, or what, will run the city.
About the cast
Lea Drinda and Soma Pysall front the series, with Franz Hartwig, David Schütter, Mouataz Alshaltouh, Jördis Triebel, Jenny Schily and Lars Eidinger rounding out a cast drawn largely from German film and theatre. Eidinger in particular will be a familiar face to viewers of recent German-language drama.
Context & significance
Philipp Kadelbach directs this 2026 co-production between Germany and Spain, structured as a mini-series with episodes running around 57 minutes. The show stitches together two genres that rarely share a frame: the climate-dystopia drama, with its sealed enclaves and desperate outsiders, and the vampire thriller, with its old questions about who gets to feed on whom. Setting the story in Berlin, a city whose own history is one of walls and partitions, gives the dome an obvious resonance.
Watching City of Blood on Ktime
City of Blood streams on K-Time with a free account login. A Persian dub is available, so the series can be watched entirely in Farsi; Persian subtitles are not currently offered for this title. K-Time's interface is itself in Persian, designed for Iranian viewers living abroad.