Tatort
Odenthal - 69 - Maleficius
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Episode details
- Original air date
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- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2019 / 25
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
- Data last checked
Overview
A wheelchair stands on the banks of the Rhine. Its owner has disappeared, leaving only a wallet behind. A suicide? A tragic accident? Or is it a crime? Lena Odenthal and Johanna Stern research the medical history of the disappeared and discover: everything points to suicide. But then the body of a doctor is found. She worked in brain research, where people with disabilities are supposed to regain mobility with the help of brain stimulation and where the missing wheelchair user also sought help. Lena and Johanna wonder if the self-confident, Nobel Prize-winning boss of the resident is involved in their case. He not only treats paralysis, but also has high-flying plans for the fusion of the human brain with artificial intelligence. With Lena Odenthal, however, doubts about his credibility are growing. The possibilities of brain stimulation and the ambition of neuronal research are the subject of author and director Tom Bohn's "Tatort: Maleficius". In it, Sebastian Bezzel plays a researcher for whom everything seems possible in his impressive clinical world.
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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