Tatort
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Episode details
- Original air date
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- Status
- Aired
- Season / Episode
- 2020 / 15
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Original network/platform
- Das Erste
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Overview
After a night of drinking, Anna Janneke (Margarita Broich) and Paul Brix (Wolfram Koch), badly hung over, are called to a crime scene: a man was apparently tortured and murdered in a lonely forest hut. To her amazement, police chief Ansgar Matzerath (Peter Lohmeyer) confesses at the scene of the crime. He claims to have killed the man because he kidnapped and raped his wife seven years ago. He doesn't value mitigating circumstances and demands a harsh punishment for himself. Complicated by extensive renovation work in the police station and parallel coaching sessions, the police officers begin their interrogation. Is Matzerath reallythe perpetrator? Is the victim really the rapist of his wife? What does the long-retired detective Elsa Bronski (Hannelore Elsner), who worked on the case at the time and never solved and who is still chasing her own demons, know? Piece by piece, they put the pieces of the puzzle together and come up against new questions that affect their own work and shake their self-image as police officers. In addition to Margarita Broich and Wolfram Koch as the Frankfurt investigative team, Peter Lohmeyer and – in one of her last roles – Hannelore Elsner can be seen in "Tatort: The Good and the Bad" in the lead role in the episode. Hannelore Elsner died a year ago on April 21, 2019.
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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