Low key and excellently led by Gunter Lamprecht as the Berlin police inspector, Franz Markowitz, this Tatort episode delves into the issues of property arising both from the reunification of Germany and from the forced sale of Jewish property in the Nazi era. The heir to the former owner of an apartment block in East Berlin might get back his property rights with unification of Germany, but what had his father done during the Nazi era? How strong were his moral rights to the property? Could he be challenged by the heirs of the original Jewish owners? And what social justice was there in the drive to redevelopment in post-unification East Berlin? An interesting detective story made in the immediate post-unification period with many glimpses of Berlin as it then was.
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