

2024 · 2 seasons · 45m · ★ 0.0
Glittering facades, vibrant life, and people facing the daily struggle for survival. ZDF correspondents each profile a megacity within their reporting area. How do people celebrate, laugh, and love in such a city? How are problems like housing shortages, food supply, transportation, and climate change solved – in metropolises with over ten million inhabitants?
Start from S1E1 · Chongqing - the largest city in the world
E12024 · 44m
This megacity is growing relentlessly and is not for the faint of heart. Anyone wanting to experience China simply cannot miss Chongqing – the largest city in the world.
E22024 · 43m
Mexico City was once feared; today, the megacity is a tourist hotspot. The city has retained its fighting spirit – in some places for the sake of spectacle, in others for survival.
E32024 · 44m
Lagos is growing faster than any other city in the world. A megacity of extremes: while many of its 25 million inhabitants live in poverty, money is no object in its clubs.
E42024 · 45m
Extraordinary people, touching stories and mysterious places.
E52024 · 45m
As night falls over the Thames, those sharp contrasts emerge that make London arguably the most interesting and international metropolis in Europe.
E62025 · 45m
Rio de Janeiro is Sugarloaf Mountain, the Christ the Redeemer statue, and Copacabana. When night falls, culture and music pulsate – but it's also hard work in the "engine room" of the metropolis.
E72025 · 45m
Between tradition, chaos, and constant upheaval: How does beleaguered Istanbul, with its 16 million inhabitants, manage to survive as a modern global city despite all the tensions?
E82025 · 45m
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E92025 · 45m
Vienna is beautiful. Framed by the facades of the Austro-Hungarian era, people enjoy culture and coffee, clattering past St. Stephen's Cathedral and the Sisi Museum in horse-drawn carriages. Until night falls.
E102025 · 44m
When pilot Ky sees the Toronto skyline during her evening approach, it's the happiest moment of her day. The financial metropolis transforms into a vibrant, dazzling melting pot.
E112026 · 54m
City of love, fashion metropolis, place of longing for millions of people – that is Paris, often described as the most beautiful city in the world.

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