Tatort (1970)

Tatort

Tatort is the German-language crime anthology conceived by Gunther Witte that began on West German television on 29 November 1970 with Taxi nach Leipzig and is now produced jointly by ARD, ORF and SRF. Each film is a self-contained case for one of the rotating regional investigator teams, from Erik Ode's successors in Munich to Götz George's Duisburg commissioner Horst Schimanski and Ulrike Folkerts's Ludwigshafen commissioner Lena Odenthal, with Jörg Schüttauf among the many actors who have led an edition; more than 1,300 films have aired, at a current rate of about 35 a year, each premiering on a Sunday evening. (IMDb; Wikipedia)

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Buler Grand Prix

Worn by Marius Müller-Westernhagen as Horst Bremer. In Transit ins Jenseits (Sender Freies Berlin, first broadcast 5 December 1976, IMDb), Westernhagen's Horst Bremer, a Berlin con man who grooms a waitress for a scheme on the transit road to West Germany, wears a black watch that a member posted as a frame in 2022 asking whether it was a Sinn; the answer identified it as a Buler Grand Prix, the black fibreglass-cased Swiss mechanical watch of the 1970s, pointing to the ZEIGR blog's article on the model. The identification rests on that one reply and the frame, which shows the black case, dial and strap but no further marking. (Uhrforum; Uhrforum)

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Heuer 1550 SG

Worn by Götz Otto as Hauptmann Kessler. In Das Verhör (SWR, Odenthal and Stern, first broadcast 4 September 2022, IMDb), Otto's Bundeswehr captain Kessler, the suspect whose night-long interrogation gives the film its title, repeatedly displays a black-dialed chronograph on a black strap. An Uhrforum member posted an SWR press photograph the next day asking whether it was a Heuer 1550 or a Guinand Starfighter; a member who owns the reference answered that it is definitely the Heuer 1550 SG, the flyback chronograph Heuer supplied to the Luftwaffe, which suits a character written as a career officer. The press photograph shows the watch at wrist distance, so the identification rests on the owner's reading rather than a legible dial. (Uhrforum; Uhrforum)

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