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This is the actress Maria Furtwängler in the role of Charlotte Lindholm, Lindholm is a cop from Hannover (the capital of Lower Saxony, one of the sixteen federal states of Germany). She may be beautiful but is as tough as nails; a kind of female version of "Dirty Harry". The coat she is wearing resembles the coat of Columbo and is kind of her trademark. She appears in the German TV-series "Tatort" meaning "Scene of the crime". "Tatort" is a unique series; here some information why (from Wikipedia):
Tatort (German police jargon meaning the scene of a crime) is a German language police procedural television series developed by the German television channel ARD. It is unique in its approach, in that it is jointly produced by all of the station's regional public-service broadcasters whereby every regional station contributes a number of episodes to a common pool. Therefore, the series is a collection of different police stories where different police teams each solve crimes in their respective city. Uniqueness in architecture, customs and dialects of the cities is therefore a distinctive part of the series and often the city, not the police force is the real main character of an episode. The concept of local stations only producing a couple of shows per year has also enabled the shows to be longer (90 minutes) and more fleshed out psychologically than other weekly TV dramas.
The first episode was broadcast on November 29, 1970 and the series has been continuously on the air ever since. This makes it the longest-running TV-drama of Germany.
This evening another episode will be shown; it will be episode 949 and take place in Saarbrücken featuring this cop team:
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