Tatort
Ballauf - 33 - Blutdiamanten
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Episode details
- Original air date
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- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2006 / 2
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
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Overview
The jeweler Karl De Mestre had imagined the celebratory reception for his company anniversary differently. The stylish festival for the better society in Cologne is disrupted by globalization opponents from the activist group "Underworld". They accuse De Mestre of earning his money with diamonds from civil war zones. Suddenly a shot is fired. The activist Andre Hesse is shot at close range. The commissionersMax Ballauf and Freddy Schenk take on the case. It quickly becomes clear: a professional was at work here. Did Hesse have to die because of his commitment against the so-called blood diamonds? Could De Mestre himself be behind the murder? A trail leads Ballauf and Schenk to the Belgian diamond metropolis of Antwerp. They decide to investigate there on their own and thus put their lives in danger.
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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