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Tatort

Ehrlicher - 44 - Racheengel

S2007 · E17
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Episode details

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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2007 / 17
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

The literary agent Ulrike Oppermann is found dead during the Leipzig Book Fair. The chief inspectors Ehrlicher and Kain determine that the murdered woman seems to be the famous star author Mimi Blaise, whose true identity was unknown to anyone. After police officer Matthias Erler was initially suspected because he had spent the night with the victim, chief police officer Anna Stein got involved in the case. She wants to prove her colleague's innocence. She takes on the role of the star author whose true identity was to be revealed at the book fair in order to force the killer into believing he had murdered the wrong woman. Chief Inspector Ehrlicher is not at all happy with this arbitrary, dangerous action by the young colleague. While Anna Stein likes the role of the star author more and more, Chief Inspector Ehrlicher researches the economic environment of the book fair and Chief Inspector Kain investigates the author's personal area in order to track down the perpetrator and prevent another murder attempt. The detectives encounter secret intrigues, dark machinations - and the real Mimi Blaise. The commissioners were just able to prevent a second insidious attack.

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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