Silas

A gentle, old-fashioned adventure that follows a runaway boy through rustic Europe, mixing circus tricks, narrow escapes and warm friendships with a quiet sense of peril.

Created by

Bernd Burgemeister

Genres

Family, Sci-fi & fantasy

Starring

Patrick Bach, Diether Krebs, Günter Meisner

Overview

Silas was a 1981 ZDF Adventure TV mini-series based on the Danish children's book „Silas og den sorte hoppe“ by Cecil Bødker who kept on writing instalments 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 filmed solely in German. Still it received attention beyond German-speaking countries and consequently the successor Jack Holborn involved international producers and was filmed in English.

How it feels

Earnest, warm, tense and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Survival, freedom, friendship, found family

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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