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Tatort

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S2018 · E34
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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2018 / 34
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

dr Steinfeld is found dead in his practice. The renowned psychiatrist specialized in war trauma, among his patients are civilian victims of armed conflicts as well as traumatized military personnel at the US Air Base in Ramstein. People with a wide variety of experiences of violence, one of whom may have turned against their therapist. Heather Miller, for example, who was used as a "screener" in the drone war and is now an orderly officer in Germany because she got depression. Above all, however, the case of Mirhat Rojan is captivatingLena Odenthal's attention: The Kurd lost his two children in an American drone attack in Iraq, now lives with his brother in Ludwigshafen and is known to the police because he wanted to draw attention to his fate with public campaigns. The Rojans have disappeared from the scene, but the more Lena and Johanna deal with the two, the more concrete the suspicion that they are planning a drone attack: an assassination attempt on Jason O'Connor, Secretary of Defense in the US Department of Defense, who is in Germany is expected.

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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