The action in the series also covers three different time periods: 2019, 1986, and 1953. “I love those long straight trees – they’re like jail bars. They feel for me very creepy, like a fairytale forest. “The soil here is very dry, so you get a lot of coniferous, long straight trees. “The forest is about an hour away from the city centre,” he said. But all the locations are shot around Berlin.”ĭirector Baran bo Odar said the forest proved the ideal setting for Dark’s dark vision. We picked various different places: a house here, a house there. “Actually, once you go a few minutes from the city centre, Berlin basically becomes a village. “We actually shot in Berlin,” Friese said.
Surprisingly, despite the spooky woodland setting, the production team behind the series found the ideal location less than an hour from the German capital of Berlin. However, their real history did inform how they saw the location: “We both come from small towns, so you can probably find both our birth towns in there a little bit,” Friese added. We wanted it to be somewhere that could be everywhere.” “We deliberately wanted that because we didn’t want to colour it with a specific Bavarian or northern German setting. “It’s a fictional town,” Dark writer Jantje Friese. Sadly, no: the small town next to a nuclear power plant is not actually a real town in Germany. Is the town of Winden in Dark a real place? Given that international viewers might not know much about the German setting, we asked creators Baran bo Odarn and Jantje Friese to tell us a little more about Dark’s creepy setting. In Dark, the setting for the series – tall trees, dark forest, subterranean caves and small town community – only adds to the sense of mystery.