BEAT

The seven-part series BEAT (working title) is the fifth German Amazon Prime Original to go into production and marks filmmaker Marco Kreuzpaintner’s first foray into directing a TV series. Heading up a veritable Who’s Who of young German acting talent including Karoline Herfurth, Kostja Ullmann and Alexander Fehling, Jannis Niewöhner stars as Robert Schlag, nicknamed Beat, a Berlin club promoter who lives for the excesses of sex, drugs and the German capital’s nightlife. His connections to the underworld lead the newly established European intelligence agency to use Beat to try and infiltrate a notorious human organ smuggling ring. However, it is not long before Beat is fighting for his own life...