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Tatort

Steier - 5 - Wer das Schweigen bricht

S2013 · E14
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Aired
Season / Episode
2013 / 14
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

The fifth case of Conny Mey and Frank Steier leads the two Frankfurt investigators into the hermetic world of a juvenile prison. During the morning investigation, 19-year-old Mustafa Zeydan was found dead. He was tortured - eight toenails were pulled from him. Frank Steier and Conny Mey can determine the course of events, but how did the murderer get in after the cells were closed and how did he get out again? Another inmate, Erhan Karabay, survived, also having his toenails removed. The investigative work is made more difficult by the stubborn silence of the other young prisoners. Mey and Steier learn from the social worker Katharina Enders that there was a massive argument between prisoner Jürgen Schuch and the judicial staff the evening before they were locked up. Since then, he has been held in the "particularly secured cell". What connection is there between Jürgen and the two victims? And what do the closers have to do with the matter? When Conny Mey and Frank Steier questioned Erhan in the infirmary, he said nothing about the course of events, but he whispered to Conny that his wife and little daughter were in danger. In fact, it turns out a little later that the two have disappeared. Now a race against time begins for Mey and Steier. Under the working title "Der Eskimo" (February 17 to March 20, 2013) in Frankfurt, Hessischer Rundfunk is currently filming the latest case, directed by Achim von Borries, with Joachim Król as Chief Inspector Steier.

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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