Tatort
Saalfeld - 15 - Todesschütze
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Episode details
- Original air date
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- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2012 / 31
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
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Overview
On their way home at night, Anne and René Winkler are attacked and brutally beaten by three young men. The police officers Rahn and Maurer notice this attack and take care of the two victims. But the perpetrators running away cannot recognize or catch them. Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler begin to have doubts about the statements made by their police colleagues when it turns out that one of the suspected youths identified by Winkler's description is Rahn's son. They could understand that a father wants to cover for his son, but they do not find it credible that his colleague Maurer did not recognize any of the young people. Is he silent out of misunderstood friendship? The head of the department puts his hand in the fire for his police officers. The young people are stubbornly silent and have carefully coordinated their alibis with each other - without witnesses to the crime, Saalfeld and Keppler cannot prove anything to them. When Mrs. Winkler dies as a result of the violent attack, the desperate husband, who feels abandoned by the police, tries to take matters into his own hands. The violence is spreading..
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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