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Taxi nach Leipzig

Episode aired Oct 4, 1997
TV-14
1h 28m

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The East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. S... Read allThe East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a m... Read allThe East German authorities are calling the West German Police for assistance on a case. The body of a boy was found at a Truck Stop near Leipzig. The boy wears shoes made in West Germany. Some time later the assistance call is withdrawn. Phoning his colleague in East Berlin, a man he worked together with in the past, investigator Paul Trimmel in Hamburg is told: "The... Read all

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Walter Richter

Kommissar Trimmel

Renate Schroeter

Eva Billsing

Paul Albert Krumm

Erich Landsberger

Hans Peter Hallwachs

Oberleutnant Klaus
(as Peter Hallwachs)

Edgar Hoppe

Kriminalmeister Höffgen

Erwin Klietsch

Karl Lincke

Marianne Hachfeld

Elvira Kniebel

Ernst Wendt

VoPo

Günter Lamprecht

DDR-Grenzer
(as Günther Lamprecht)

Gerhard Hartig

Karl Bell

Horst Ulbricht

Mechaniker

Henry E. Simmon

Juwelier
(as Henry-Ernst Simmon)

Wolf-Dietrich Berg

Lieselotte Kunze

Frau Rau
(uncredited)

Barbara Lienau

Frau Lincke
(uncredited)

Sigurd Lohde

Boris Mahlau

Christian Landsberger
(uncredited)

Jutta Zech

Isolde
(uncredited)

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Trivia
First movie of the very successful "Tatort" series. By 2016 over 1,000 episodes have been produced and production is still going on.

Connections
Featured in Taten, Orte, Kommissare (1995)

Soundtracks
Tatort Theme Song
Written by Klaus Doldinger

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9/10

A true classic

This is a real classic and, at least in its category as a made-for-tv movie, nothing less than a masterpiece. The film was the first one of numerous full-length episodes of the still-running tv-series "Tatort". Set in Leipzig, by that time a metropolis of East Germany, the film tells the story of a cop from Hamburg (West Germany) who mostly off-duty follows the tracks of a kid that died near the Autobahn at Leipzig. It is not the thriller elements that keep the viewer attentive and interested, but the people in the film and the way there story is told. No character clichés, excellent acting, good camera-work - and, not to be forgotten, a fascinating clash of two Germany cultures. It's a quite one, but far above the average of tv-movie making. A proficient film and a time document at the same time.