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Köln - Ghost Town

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The severed thumb of a fugitive cop killer comes to Max and Freddy in the mail, leading them to a deserted town. Directed by Niki Stein, 2005.

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On the day that Ulrich Wahl is called at home by his young Cuban lover Teresa, his fears are confirmed. Covered in blood and completely distraught, she begs him for help. There is a dead person in her secret love nest must go. Wahl feels compelled to act, else the fragile construction of his double life would shatter into pieces. The corpse that Chief Inspector Klaus Borowski confronts Ulrich Wahl with is not the dead man from his lover's apartment. It is  a security guard who was found run over on a construction site by the entrepreneur Wahl. Borowski registers Wahl's cool response to the news. The security guard Bernd Ruda was run over with the car of Thorsten Brück, Teresa's husband. Brück also works for Wahl, but has now disappeared. When Wahl is then blackmailed, he confides in the inspector: someone blames him for the death of the security guard and is blackmailing him with it. But why is Wahl telling the commissioner about it?

Shadow Wedding

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One of the owners of a mine-removal nonprofit gets blown up during a jog, and his wife seems curiously unmoved. Directed by Torsetn C. Fischer, 2005.

Köln - Mine Games

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Following a celebration held in honor of the winner of a violin competition, music professor Karin Landauer embarks on an erotic liaison with the winner's brother. When she returns to the bedroom from the bathroom, she discovers the young man murdered. Now, her infidelity can no longer be concealed from her husband—an internationally renowned violin virtuoso. However, the husband is far more devastated by the fact that a 300-year-old Stradivarius—"The Sleeping Beauty," which belongs to his wife—has vanished from their apartment, than he is by his wife's adultery. [Eisner]

The Sleeping Beauty

A notorious liar wants to convince the Bremen detectives of a 9/11 conspiracy theory.

Bremen - Scheherazade

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At the Ministry of the Interior, a German industrialist issues a threat: he will close his company's headquarters in Austria unless the murder of his wife—who was killed a year ago near their farmhouse in the Tyrolean mountains—is finally solved. Consequently, Moritz Eisner is dispatched to crack the case.

The Devil from the Mountain

A beloved figure skating celebrity and competition judge is found dead on the ice. Directed by Züli Aladag, 2005.

Köln - Frozen

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A new case confronts Commissioner Borowski with grisly finds. In Kiel, the remains of human bodies appear in the sewers - teeth, hair, hip joints. They come from several bodies, and show clear traces of acid. Inspector Borowski and his colleagues are puzzled: where did the remains come from, how did they end up in the sewers, and how many people did they belong to?

Borowski in the Underworld

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After a snowstorm, a forester finds the very young Stefanie Thaller on the edge of an industrial park in the north of Munich: half naked and explored. Rarely have detective inspectors Franz Leitmayr and Ivo Batic faced a murder case with such poor information, and the father of the murdered man, Ludwig Thaller, a traveling salesman, is constantly breathing down the investigators' necks.

Blowing Snow

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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 in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

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