Jan Scholtz (Writer)

Little is known about Jan Scholtz, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.

Works

Paradise Road

The love story between a German prisoner of war and a British Army nurse, in an English prison camp in Rhodesia, during World War II.

Release Date1988-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

April 1980

She was innocent, but in control of their devious plans. As a spy, he was in a perfect position on campus. As an activist, everything had to be according to his distorted ideals.

Release Date1980-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Kwikstertjie

Sequel to 'Môre, Môre'. Eight years after the incident in which Dewald tried to kill a teacher with a javelin when he was a schoolboy, he returns to the town to report on an election campaign.

Release Date1974-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Iemand Om Lief Te Hê

When James runs into his old love's sister again after 10 years, they start building a friendship that later becomes more.

Release Date1999-07-20

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Song Vir Katryn

Song vir Katryn is a modern romantic drama about Jinx, an M.D. and musican, who falls in love with Katryn, a woman with a dark and mysterious past.

Release Date2003-04-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count13

Vote Count1

Vergeet My Nie

We meet the hero of this musical drama, Dolf Preller, being released on parole after spending two and a half years in prison. Stipulations for his parole are to stay out of trouble with the law, continue his studies at university and to come into contact with the rector on arriving on campus . Soon after his arrival he runs into Jan van Vollenhoven - the brother of the man he killed, which caused his jail sentence. Van Vollenhoven promises to make life very difficult for him. He also attracts the unwanted attention of Briers and Schoeman, two students that have been trying to pass their third year without success and have earned bad reputations for fooling around rather than doing any studying. He meets the lovely daughter of the rector and a special relationship soon develops between them. The rector, however, makes it clear that Preller is an unacceptable partner for his daughter.

Release Date1976-07-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Die Sonkring

Die Sonkring

Die Sonkring is a South African, Afrikaans-language television drama series which revolves around a woman who seems to bring tragedy and misfortune to those close to her.

Release Date1991-08-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count15

Die Vierde Kabinet

Die Vierde Kabinet

Die Vierde Kabinet revolves around corruption in the police and the Organised Crime Unit, the hated internal investigation unit of the police who set traps for and spy on other police units to try and uncover corrupt members. The same corrupt police attempt to turn the tables by trying to find information about who is in this specialised unit. In 1993, shortly before the first democratic election in South Africa, a group of policemen rushed to get rid of files containing information about illegal police operations. The files were placed in filing cabinets, taken to a secret place and destroyed with explosives. But in the atmosphere of panic and disorder a cabinet - the so-called "fourth cabinet" - got lost and was forgotten. In 1997, Bonnie Badenhorst (Vanessa Pike), a policewoman attached to the special police unit investigating corruption, discovers the cabinet. Badenhorst, whose brother died in Angola, decides to remove the cabinet and hide it without informing her colleagues.

Release Date1998-05-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

'n Beeld vir Jeannie

South African Film

Release Date1976-10-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Liefste Veertjie

"Liefste Veertjie" is based on the popular novel "Waar Die Liefde Begin" by Chris Heyns and is about the developing romance between Peet, a medical student in his final year, and Elaine, a cute freshman. Elaine's father is Dean of the Medical Faculty, very successful in his profession and by no means impressed with his daughter's actions.

Release Date1975-02-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Arsenaal

Arsenaal is a South African, Afrikaans-language thriller drama television series created, written and directed by Jan Scholtz and produced by his production company Scholtz Films which is set against the backdrop of investigative journalism, corrupt security companies and corrupt police.

Release Date2002-04-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

See You Tomorrow

A drama full of intrigue and conflict about a ambitious medical student and his experience with love, drugs and communism.

Release Date1970-05-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Springbok

A person of color pretends to be white in order to make the Springbok team

Release Date1976-08-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

A Sunday in September

South African Film

Release Date1976-12-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Die Winter van 14 Julie

During his military service, a young man meets a woman and she becomes pregnant.

Release Date1977-10-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Emissary

Jack Cavanaugh, handpicked by the US president, is a hard-nosed diplomat constantly on the move between hot-spots around the world. When Russia's KGB use his wife to get access to a top secret computer system, the world's future is at stake. Time is running short and Cavanaugh see no other way out than to take on the foreign agents himself.

Release Date1989-12-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

What You Sow

A bleak and violent story of delinquency and broken family ties. Christiaan MacDonald escapes from the reformatory where he has been serving a sentence for car theft and asks his sister Dina for help. When his father tells Christiaan he is adopted, and furthermore is banished from the MacDonald family, the young man responds with criminal behavior that rip the family apart.

Release Date1979-08-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Die Eensame Vlug

Julie a student busy with her studies falls in love with her boyfriends uncle.He's gest jealus and starts to treat both in a commical and spitful manner.Julie and her new love starts to do free fall together.Her boyfriend is very angry and cuts his uncle's parachute but it turns out to be Julie's......

Release Date1979-04-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Diamant en die Dief

A Charming Thief's Encounter with a Beautiful Geologist to whom He is Trying to Sell Fake Diamonds. However, She's no Idiot and Eventually the Scammer Finds Himself with an Unwanted Partner.

Release Date1978-06-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Magic Is Alive, My Friends

Richard Loring, Anne Power, Bill Flynn

Release Date1985-03-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ter wille van Christine

A Dutch Reformed Church minister from Swartruggens falls in love with a nurse. When it becomes known that the nurse is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, the minister's church council is not at all pleased with the relationship. To complicate matters further, a married doctor also falls in love with the girl.

Release Date1975-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter