About Davos 1917
Davos 1917 is a six-part Swiss-German historical drama set in the Alpine resort town of Davos during the third winter of the First World War. While the rest of Europe is consumed by the conflict, neutral Switzerland becomes a meeting point for diplomats, profiteers, recovering soldiers, and intelligence agents from every side. At the center is Johanna Gabathuler, a nurse from a modest mountain family who takes a post in one of the grand sanatoriums that line the valley, treating wealthy patients sent to the mountains to convalesce.
When a chance encounter draws Johanna into the orbit of foreign agents operating under the cover of high-society leisure, she finds herself carrying messages and keeping secrets she only half understands. As the lines between hospitality, commerce, and espionage blur, she must navigate a world of competing loyalties, where a careless word can endanger lives and where neutrality is more performance than fact. Her growing involvement also pulls in her family and the people of the town, who have their own reasons to look the other way.
Shot against the snowbound landscapes that made Davos famous as a place of cure and quiet, the series uses the period setting to explore neutrality, class, and the moral cost of survival in wartime. The tension is built through watchfulness and intrigue rather than spectacle, keeping the focus on the woman at its center and the impossible choices forced on ordinary people caught between great powers. Darker undercurrents of the war are handled in restrained, non-graphic terms.
