Silas (TV series)
| Silas | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Adventure |
| Based on | Silas og den sorte hoppe by Cecil Bødker |
| Written by | Justus Pfaue |
| Directed by | Sigi Rothemund |
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| Composer | Christian Bruhn |
| Country of origin | West Germany |
| Original language | German |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Dieter Graber |
| Producer | Bernd Burgemeister |
| Editor | Heidrun Berktold |
| Running time | 45 |
| Original release | |
| Network | ZDF |
| Release | 25 December – 30 December 1981 |
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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.