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Tatort

Thiel - 04 - Sag nichts

S2003 · E31
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Episode details

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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2003 / 31
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

Open skull fracture is the finding of forensic pathologist Prof. Karl-Friedrich Boerne (Jan Josef Liefers). A man's body is discovered near Lake Aasee. The first indication for Commissioner Frank Thiel (Axel Prahl) are tire tracks in the mud. But instead of finding the perpetrator, this clue leads the investigator duo Thiel and Boerne to the identity of the victim. The murdered Wolfram Baermann was an engineer and successfully entered the windmill business with his longtime friend Klaus Weisberg (Harald Schrott). The young widow Rike Baermann (Julika Jenkins), a physiotherapist, describes her husband as an extremely withdrawn person who sometimes withdrew for days. Wolfram Baermann has suffered from depression since childhood . When the forensics team comes across smudged remains of blood in the Baermanns' bedroom, it becomes clear that Wolfram Baermann was killed in his own bed. His wife is increasingly under suspicion. Somehow the Baermann family seems to have been struck by fate. A few days earlier, his father's second wife, Henner Baermann (Otto Mellies), died in the bathtub. And the sister Hanne (Jenny Schily) lives in a psychiatric clinic because she has obviously suffered from trauma since childhood. Prof. Boerne's detective curiosity is aroused, maybe Hanne is the key to the murder case.

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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