
Tatort
Ballauf - 25 - Das Phantom
S2003 · E15Times reflect the original schedule reported by the data source and are converted to your time zone. Streaming availability may vary by country.
Episode details
- Original air date
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- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2003 / 15
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
- Data last checked
Overview
Freddy Schenk is caught up in the past: more than five years ago he put Ronald Lochte behind bars for a bank robbery that Lochte has always denied. Now it turns out that it probably actually hit the wrong person back then. During an armed robbery at a gas station, the surveillance cameras show a perpetrator who looks confusingly like the imprisoned Lochte. The old case appears in a new light. Is the doppelganger also responsible for the bank robbery at the time - so Ronald Lochte is innocent? However, Lochte now insists he was responsible for the bank robbery. His girlfriend Verena Radek persuaded him to admit the crime: bothare hoping for a relaxed prison regime and early release. But Lochte's parole application is not approved. For the young, impulsive man, a world collapses again. He decides to break out of prison. His plan succeeds. However, while fleeing, Lochte kills a law enforcement officer. Freddy Schenk is now increasingly plagued by pangs of conscience. He feels responsible for the judicial victim Lochte - in contrast to his colleague. For Max Ballauf, Lochte is a murderer. The commissioners start following him. In the process, Schenk himself becomes a target. Because Lochte is desperately trying to hold those responsible for his fate accountable...
About the show
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF 2 in Austria, and SF1 in Switzerland. The first episode was broadcast on November 29, 1970. The opening sequence for the series has remained the same throughout the decades, which remains highly unusual for any such long-running TV series to date. Each of the regional TV channels that together form ARD, plus ORF and SF, produces its own episodes, starring its own police inspector, some of which, like the discontinued Schimanski, have become cultural icons. The show appears on DasErste and ORF 2 on Sundays at 8:15 p.m. and currently about 30 episodes are made per year. As of March 2013, 865 episodes in total have been produced. Tatort is currently being broadcast in the United States on the MHz Worldview channel under the name Scene of the Crime.
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