Silas (1981)

Directed by

Sigi Rothemund

Genre

family, sci-fi & fantasy

Country

Germany

Length

1 season, 12 episodes

Rated

6

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy named Silas forms a bond with a black mare. Together they face various challenges and adventures in a rural setting.

lightheartedadventurousfamily-friendlyold-fashionedbreezyearnesthopeful

What happens

Silas is a 1981 ZDF adventure television mini-series based on the Danish children's book Silas og den sorte hoppe (Silas and the Black Mare) by Cecil Bødker who kept on writing installments until 2001. The series was Patrick Bach's debut, and because the series did so well, he also starred the very next year in another adventure series about a young orphan: Jack Holborn. Silas was a German production, and despite being recorded in France — Normandy and in Brittany (Bay of Douarnenez, Locronan, Bay of Audierne, near Plovan - on the long sandy beach where the German version of the opening credits were shot) — it was filmed solely in German. Still it received attention beyond German-speaking countries and consequently the successor Jack Holborn involved international producers and was dub filmed in English. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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