EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has unveiled plans for a trio of docs from German producer Beetz Brothers Movie Productions.
Right here in Berlin on the inaugural Seriesly Berlin occasion, a November 10 launch was set for German Cocaine Cowboy on Prime Video Germany. A second doc, Billions Mike (aka Milliarden Mike), will debut per week later (November) earlier than Killy My Doppelgänger debuts in 2025.
Prime Video has licensed the three docs, which from Leonine Studios-owned Beetz Brothers Productions.
German Cocaine Cowboys, a four-part documentary collection about rise of Hamburg gangster Joe Marx to the highest of the infamous Cali cartel within the Nineties and his subsequent return to Germany after years off jail time, was teased final month and photographs is being proven to delegates her in Berlin at the moment.
The producers are Christian Beetz and Georg Tschurtschenthaler for Beetz Brothers, and the director is Peter Dörfler. Manufacturing is supported by German Movement Image Fund and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
Billions Mike is billed as a “humorous and twist-filled psychological profile” of Peter ‘Mike’ Wappler, Germany’s most notorious and flamboyant con artist. The movie follows his first 12 months of freedom from jail and his preparation for his newest rip-off. Reinhardt Beetz is the producer and the chief producer is Nadine Neumann for Beetz Brothers Movie Manufacturing. The director is Ina Kessebohm.
Kill My Doppelganger appears to be like into one of the crucial mysterious true crime circumstances in current instances — the obvious loss of life of younger magnificence blogger Shahraban, who was discovered lifeless in a automotive in a forest close to Ingolstadt on August 16, 2022. Nonetheless, the physique truly belonged to a different girl who resembles Shahraban and police assume she was particularly chosen by way of Instagram and lured into the forest, the place she was killed with greater than 70 stab wounds.
Christian Beetz and Georg Tschurtschenthaler are the producers. The administrators are Carsten Gutschmidt and Cordula Stadter.
The docs will sit subsequent to German originals corresponding to LOL: Final One Laughing, Maxton Corridor – The World Between Us, Sebastian Fitzek’s The Remedy, The Griffon, Luden – Kings of the Reeperbahn and Joko Winterscheid Presents: The World’s Most Harmful Present and U.S. collection corresponding to The Boys, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy and Reacher.
Seriesly Berlin’s second and remaining day kicked off with a session that includes Christian Beetz, with Prime Video Nation Director set to take a seat down with Deadline for an on-stage interview later this morning and Weeds author Jenji Kohan additionally talking. Test again in for additional protection.
