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Night Trains
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Night Trains actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Night Trains reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
A journey along Europe’s most spectacular night train routes, uncovering hidden natural stories along the way — stories of landscapes, wildlife, and the ecosystems that shape them.We meet people on board and along the routes. What unites them is a special connection to nature. Traveling through the night and into the early hours of morning, our routes take us across Germany, Scandinavia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, and almost the entire Balkan Peninsula, all the way to the outskirts of Istanbul.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Created by
- Anna MollCreator
Executive production
- Bady MinckProducer
- Alexander Dumreicher-IvanceanuProducer
- Anke PetersenProducer
- Karl Emil RikardsenProducer
- Anna MollProducer
Direction
- Hanna MathisDirector
- Tord T. OlsenDirector
- Anna MollDirector
- Eliza PetkovaDirector
Where to watch
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