Through the “migration of peoples” Germanic warlords take over power in Western Europe and take over the inheritance of the Roman Empire. Under their leadership the Christian Occident emerges. However, recent research refutes the Roman vs. Germanic dichotomy and paints a complex picture of the fall of Rome.
WRITER: Martin Carazo Mendez DIRECTOR: Nina Koshofer, Martin Becker, Leonard Claus, Eva Schötteldreier CAMERA: Torbjörn Karvang, Tobias Sundermann, Michael Kern, Sebastian Etmer, Sias van Zyl, Steffen Bohn EDITOR: Marie Wilbers SOUND: Simone Hartmann, Holger Jung, Till Röhlig MUSIC: Paul Rabiger COMMISSIONING EDITORS: Claudia Moroni (ZDF), Georg Graffe (ZDF)
