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Tatort

Lannert - 24 - Hüter der Schwelle

S2019 · E27
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Status
Aired
Season / Episode
2019 / 27
Runtime
90 min
Original network/platform
Das Erste
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Overview

The body of Marcel Richter is found on a mountain plateau just outside of Stuttgart. The place is lonely and wildly beautiful - and the dead man has magical props that signal that the student may have been the victim of ritual murder. The commissioners Thorsten Lannert and Sebastian Bootz are therefore researching connections to occult circles. There was nothing like that, according to both Marcel's mother and Diana Jäger, a fellow student with whom the reticent student spent a lot of time. An address that the inspectors find on Marcel leads them to Emil Luxinger. The private scholar sees himself as a magician and claims to have been robbed by the student. That's why he put a damaging spell on him. In terms of hard facts, that brings theCommissioners not really further. Cursing is not a criminal offense and does not result in death. But her distrust of Emil Luxinger, who appears to be very detached, has been aroused. While Lannert and Bootz try to find out whether the self-proclaimed magician actually acted, Luxinger tries to draw the detectives into his magical way of thinking. The "crime scene: guardian of the threshold", for which Michael Glasauer wrote the screenplay, leads the inspectors into intermediate worlds, in which things are sometimes quite tangible and in which their steadfastness is tested in more than one way. André M. Hennicke can be experienced as the magical antagonist of Richy Müller and Felix Klare, whose world director Piotr J. Lewandowski captures in beguiling images.

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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