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Tatort: Luna frisst oder stirbt - Television film Germany 2020 | Program
Premiere
The first broadcast of the crime scene: Luna eats or dies took place on January 19, 2020.
Director
The German director of the crime scene: Luna eats or dies is Lena Knauss.
Writers
The script for the crime scene: Luna eats or dies was written by Beate Langmaack.
Cast
In the crime scene: Luna eats or dies act:
- Ulrike Folkerts as Lena Odenthal
- Peter Sodann as Mario Kopper
- Karin Hanczewski as Johanna Stern
Synopsis
In the Ludwigshafen district Melm, the body of the young veterinarian Maren Kaminski is found on a horse farm. Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper take on the investigation.
Odenthal had a private contact with the murdered woman because she treated her horse. The chief veterinary officer Beate Winkler (Ulrike Krumbiegel) and the stable owner Ramin Esfahani (Arnd Klawitter) had access to the stable and therefore were able to commit the murder. The forensic doctor discovers traces of a deadly amanita mushroom in Kaminski's blood. In order to get to the perpetrator, Odenthal and Kopper question mushroom specialist Dr. Georg Sterneck (Hans Diehl), who tells them that the deadly bulbous amanita is not native to the Ludwigshafen area.
When the investigators discover private recordings from surveillance cameras, the investigation leads to the head of the horse clinic at Ludwigshafen University, Professor Dr. Thomas Bechstein (Martin Wuttke), with whom Kaminski had an affair. He admits that he had forbidden Kaminski to report the use of the mushroom poison Amanita bulbosa on Bechstein's racehorses. Kaminski had passed the information on to Esfahani, whom Bechstein had since threatened with expulsion from the university.
The police are able to prove that Bechstein had poisoned Kaminski's horse just before the crime and that the animal had passed the poison on to the murdered woman through its milk. Bechstein is arrested for murder.
Background
The crime scene: Luna eats or dies is the 1014th episode of the German crime scene series and the 72nd case of Lena Odenthal and Mario Kopper.
The crime scene: Luna eats or dies was filmed from August 20 to September 13, 2019 in Ludwigshafen and the surrounding area.
The title of the crime scene: Luna eats or dies refers to the fact that the murdered woman was a veterinarian and that the murder weapon was a mushroom poison.
Reception
The crime scene: Luna eats or dies was a critical success.
The viewers praised the exciting plot, the good acting performances and the atmospheric setting.
The critics praised the film's suspenseful atmosphere and its realistic portrayal of police work.
