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Tatort

Eisner - 39 - Schock

S2017 · E3
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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2017 / 3
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

Lieutenant Colonel Moritz Eisner (Harald Krassnitzer) and his colleague Major Bibi Fellner (Adele Neuhauser) want to prevent an announced double murder in an unusual case: a young man from a good family has kidnapped his parents and announces via internet video, first them and then himself kill. What sounds like an act of insanity is presented by David Frank (Aaron Karl) as completely "normal", because the medical student wants to point out social grievances with his spectacular action. According to his ingenious plan, the police should only find out what he is about in the course of the investigation and in front of the eyes of the Internet public. The fact that the kidnapper is always one step ahead of him is hard on Eisner. In addition, the constitutional protection officer Gerold Schubert (Dominik Warta), who accompanies the case, gets on his nerves. And the investigator has to find out that his daughter Claudia's (Tanja Raunig) friend (Mehmet Sözer) is involved in the matter. The fact that parts of the student body sympathize with their fellow student David is obviously also very irritating for the investigators. The critical professor Sarah Adler (Mercedes Escherer), an expert on rampages, seems to know more about his motives. However, the former activist is not very cooperative.

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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