A crime scene between a murder and a major international political stage. Professor Boerne ( Liefers ) and Inspector Thiel ( Prahl ) investigated the death of a garden owner. So far so common. But they discovered a conspiracy around the “two plus four talks”, i.e. negotiations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR.

On June 18, 1990, during a conversation with his colleague Hans-Dietrich Genscher in the Peace Hall in Münster, the communist German policeman who acted as Eduard Ševardnadze's bodyguard had to shoot the then Soviet Union foreign minister. The film even features a photo in which the fictional assassin has been added to the existing photo by Genscher through image processing. In the TV crime drama, the CIA foils an assassination attempt.

Why did the makers of “Tatort” reject Putin's idea?

As the “Bild” newspaper now reports, the makers of the ARD ratings had completely different plans. They wanted to assign the role of the killer to a former KGB agent – Russian President Vladimir Putin! He was actually an agent in Germany since 1985. KGB expert dr. According to Douglas Selvage, one of Putin's tasks at the time was to “recruit intelligence sources on the territory of the GDR.”

Putin at the “crime scene”? It was said to have been in the room for a long time when the 2021 episode was being planned. But during the preparations for filming, the makers rejected the idea. Director Brigitte Bertele explains: “With the start of a terrible war In Ukraine – note Red. ) quickly became clear to us that such a twist in history cannot be accomplished when people are dying at the same time.” Plus: The crime thriller aired on Russia's election Sunday, when Putin was re-elected president.

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