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Tatort

Ballauf - 39 - Verdammt

S2008 · E2
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Episode details

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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2008 / 2
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

Max Ballauf and Freddy Schenk have to solve the murder of a pedophile ex-prisoner. The sympathy for Paul Keller is limited: After twelve years in prison, he was allegedly treated and only a few hours free. Now the body of the notorious child killer has been found in a residential dumpster, just like eight-year-old Kevin, his alleged victim. Inspectors Ballauf and Schenk are faced with a difficult task: the number of suspects is large, especially since the "Child Protection" citizens' initiative had publicly opposed Keller's release . Following the American model, the organization had published Keller's identity and place of residence on the Internet and distributed leaflets with his photo all over the neighborhood. The driving force behind "Child Protection" is Kevin's father Stefan Maywald, formerly a very successful lawyer. After the death of his son, he devoted himself entirely to fighting the pedophile scene. But Maywald isn't the only one who isn't letting go of the past. The events and the slander from the neighbors also left their mark on Keller's family, his parents and his stepbrother.

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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