Tatort
Bienzle - 20 - Bienzle und der Feuerteufel
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Episode details
- Original air date
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- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2005 / 1
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
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Overview
The Stuttgart fire brigade has already had to fight two fires that were caused by arson in the last three months. A man dies in a third fire following the same pattern. This gets Bienzle on the scene, who immediately quarrels with the investigators of the arson. The dead man is a Romanian who has obviously acquired dubious merits as a former Securitate employee and most recently worked as a money collector for building contractors with the harshness usual for this job. Was a murder committed here and disguised as arson resulting in death? However, the series of arson attacks shows more and more that very special expertise was required. Is the arsonist one of the ranks of the fire brigade? Here, too, Bienzle stabs into a wasps' nest when he confronts the responsible fire-fighting manager with his suspicions. But Bienzle is not distracted by officials. While solving the case, he encounters a family drama.
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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