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Tatort

Steier - 4 - Im Namen des Vaters

S2012 · E34
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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2012 / 34
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

New Year's morning. The body of a woman is found on the edge of a schoolyard. Conny Mey and Frank Steier are amazed at how quickly they manage to determine the woman's identity: it is Agnes Brendel, and she was obviously well known in this neighborhood like a sore thumb. Agnes was poor, always had bad luck with men and, despite having a partner, Agnes often roamed the pubs alone. Mey and Steier try to reconstruct the last days before she was murdered. The proprietor of a pub, other regular customers, the kiosk owner, even the parish priest, with whom she often went to church, and many others from the neighborhood – all of them can remember when they last saw Agnes. But the statements do not match. Did the killer know Agnes, or was she just in the wrong place at the wrong time? What role does her partner Viktor play, and what does Father Markus know? The commissioners are puzzled. In addition to Joachim Król and Nina Kunzendorf, the cast includes Paulus Manker, Rainer Bock, Florian Lukas, Vincent Redetzki, Anna Böttcher, Robert Viktor Minich and Gerd Wameling. Lars Kraume again wrote the screenplay and directed this fourth case, which is again based on an authentic event from the book "On the Trail of Evil" by detective inspector and crime scene analyst Axel Petermann.

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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