Johannes W. Betz (Writer)
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Works
Hamburg Dockland
Shows the interaction between Hamburg police officers and paramedics.
Release Date2007-01-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count13
Scene of the Crime
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Release Date1970-11-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count114
Die Cleveren
Die Cleveren is a German television series that was produced from 1998 to 2003 on RTL. It is about a nation wide special unit of the German Bundeskriminalamt, dealing with serial offenders. The main characters are the profiler Dr. Dominik Born and a policewoman of the BKA, who co-ordinates the necessary steps to be taken by the local police authorities.
Release Date1998-03-10
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count4
Das Boot
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
Release Date2018-11-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count138
Hindenburg: The Last Flight
A chance encounter throws a young engineer into the depths of a deadly conspiracy that leads to the crash of the Hindenburg zeppelin in 1937.
Release Date2011-02-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count9
Riesending - Jede Stunde zählt
Release Date2022-12-28
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
The White Masai
A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to stay with her lover. There, she has to adapt to the Masai's way of life and get used to their food which includes milk mixed with blood. She also has to face her husband's attitude towards women and what he expects from a wife. Nonetheless, Carola is welcomed warmly into the tribe she has chosen to join.
Release Date2005-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count62
The Tunnel
Inspired by true events, Olympic swimmer Harry Melchior defects from East Germany in the 1960s and hatches a daring plot to help his sister and others flee East Berlin through a 145-yard underground tunnel.
Release Date2001-01-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count100
Zero
Berlin in the near future: A secret meeting takes place between a board member of the dominant internet company "Freemee" and members of the government. Camera drones film it unauthorized and document the events live on the Internet. The anonymous net activist group "Zero" is publicly committed to the media attack. Online journalist Cynthia Bonsant, widow and single mother, has been asked to do background research on "Zero" by the head of the online magazine "Daily". The group is classified as a terrorist organization, but according to their own statements they fight the excessive influence on the population through the so-called "Act App", which contoles the lives of users. When a friend of Cynthia's 17-year-old daughter Viola is shot dead in a hunt for a criminal, "Zero" contacts her and tries to recruit her for their own purposes. In the meantime, Cynthia has bad suspicions during her research, because soon a new version of the app will be released that will change everything.
Release Date2021-10-23
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count15
Kranke Geschäfte
Armin Glaser, a lieutenant in the Stasi, lives with his wife Marie and daughter Kati in Karl-Marx-Stadt. They put their sick daughter in the care of Dr. Sigurd. But Armin becomes suspicious during the treatments. He uses his rank in the Stasi to obtain information. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more skeptical he becomes. He suspects that the GDR is allowing West German pharmaceutical companies to test drugs on East German clinic patients.
Release Date2019-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Public Enemies
Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.
Release Date2014-05-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count13
Die Toten vom Schwarzwald
A woman disappears mysteriously in the middle of a forest. Police begins his search, in addition to her husband, a forensic expert. When officers asked to provide them with a photograph of the missing, he discovers that someone has entered her house and stole all the images of women.
Release Date2010-02-08
DepartmentWriting
JobIdea
Vote Count5
Marco W. - 247 Tage im türkischen Gefängnis
Release Date2011-03-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
Mord in den Dünen
Release Date2013-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
After the Truth
The famous Nazi-Doctor Dr. Josef Mengele - the "death angel of Auschwitz", who killed more than 300.000 people - comes back from his hide out in Argentina to Germany as a 87 year old man. He must stand up in front of a court for his crimes. The young solicitor Peter Rohm has to defend him. But Peter Rohm - himself an expert on Josef Mengele and his crimes - feels unable to do this. When he decides to take on the case he endangers not only the relationship to his wife but also their lifes. A fictional story around the non-fictional person of Josef Mengele who died in 1979.
Release Date1999-09-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count22
Stankowskis Millions
In 1991, the mood in East Germany is gloomy. Unemployment and poverty among the population in the GDR are high. Many people blame the Treuhand for the misery. Werner Stankowski, a trained computer scientist and computer specialist, is unable to find work despite hundreds of applications. His wife considers him a failure and leaves him for a rich man from the West. Only his best friend Rudi, who is also unemployed, sticks by him. Rudi's wife Gerda keeps the family afloat with a poorly performing erotic mail order business. Werner then gets a job interview with a computer company in Munich. The Wessis denounce Werner during the interview and humiliate him with Stasi slogans.....
Release Date2011-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Die Friendensmission – 10 Stunden Angst
Release Date1997-05-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Die Berufung
The story of Judge Jan-Robert von Renesse, who in the early 2000s fights against his own judicial system for the rights of Holocaust survivors and almost destroys his own life in the process.
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Marco and the Wolf
A short by Kilian von Keyserlingk.
Release Date2004-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter