Tatort
Saalfeld - 21 - Niedere Instinkte
S2015 · E17Times reflect the original schedule reported by the data source and are converted to your time zone. Streaming availability may vary by country.
Episode details
- Original air date
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- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2015 / 17
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
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Overview
Eight-year-old Magdalena does not show up at school on Monday morning. Inspectors Eva Saalfeld and Andreas Keppler launch a large-scale manhunt. When the parents are questioned, it turns out that they have not seen their child since Sunday afternoon. Magdalena had made her way to the school garden, where she personally tends a bed. Surprisingly, the parents don't seem shocked by their child's disappearance and are confident that prayer and deep faith in God will lead to a happy ending. While investigating Magdalena's way to school, Keppler discovers traces of the kidnapping and thus the scene of the crime, a disused staircase in a pedestrian tunnel. The commissioners are preparing a mass genetic test, which they are also announcing in the media. In the middle of their investigation, the news bursts that there has been a fatal accident at the home of a teacher at Magdalena's school. Keppler does not believe in coincidence and looks for the child in the house - without success. It turns out that the dead teacher's DNA matches the evidence from the tunnel. Is Wolfgang Prickel the kidnapper? Did he kill himself for fear of the announced genetic test? But where did he hide the girl? Monika Prickel vehemently denies that her husband had anything to do with the girl's disappearance. The thought that little Magdalena is struggling with death in her hiding place does not let the inspectors come to rest.
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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