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Tatort

Borowski - 02 - Schichtwechsel

S2004 · E8
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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2004 / 8
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

Strike at the Ostendorf shipyard in Kiel: Works council spokesman Bruhns wants to agree to the dismissal of a maximum of 50 men in order to ensure the preservation of the Kiel shipyard. The boss of the shipyard, Felix Ostendorf, tries almost desperately to make it clear to him that that won't be enough. But Bruhns remains firm, because he also uses the situation for personal profiling. Even his works council colleague Heise, who wants to work hand in hand with the shipyard management, cannot change his mind. 50 names, 50 destinies. Who will be blacklisted? The ambitious board secretary Tatjana Matthies is also interested in this. She is afraid for her unfit brother Benno, who won't be able to find another job any time soon. In order to save Benno's job, she even woos Bruhn's works council. Much to the displeasure of her friend Holger Clausen, who also works at the shipyard. When Commissioner Borowski was called to the shipyard the next morning, Bruhns was lying dead on a work raft. The strike ended with a quick agreement between Ostendorf and Bruhn's successor, Heise. Nevertheless, one deeply regrets the death of the vital works council. Borowski begins to delve into the cosmos of the shipyard world to learn something about the relationships at the shipyard. When the dismissal list appears, the investigations intensify. 50 names, 50 suspects? No, because the list was not published yet. But one name has been crossed out. Maybe a specific clue?

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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