Bas-Boris Bode

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Television series
German title Bas-Boris Bode - The Boy Who Was Twice
Original title Bas-Boris Bode
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany / Netherlands
original language German
year 1985
length 45 minutes
Episodes 6th
genre Youth series , mystery
Theme music Mikael Martin - Bas-Boris Bode
idea Justus Pfaue and Harry Baer
production Lilo Pleimes and Wim Leeuwenkamp
music Robert Pferdmenges
German-language
first broadcast		 October 6, 1985 on ZDF
occupation

Bas-Boris Bode - The Boy Who Was Twice is a German-Dutch television series from 1985 . The youth series with exciting and creepy elements was created based on an idea by Justus Pfaue and Harry Baer and was first broadcast on ZDF in October 1985 .

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Eight-year-old Bas-Boris Bode is visiting his father Rutger Bode in Amsterdam . During a trip to the North Sea, he witnessed a terrible incident: the grandson of the stubborn millionaire and painting collector Frans van Gulden, who was the same age, went overboard from his sailboat in a stormy sea and drowned.

Eight years later:

Bas-Boris Bode is now an enthusiastic ice hockey player and plays in the youth team of the "Berlin Polar Bears". He is a tough striker and, as captain, the undisputed number one of his team. He and his team are traveling to Amsterdam for a friendly. His mother, Annette Bode, with whom he lives in Berlin, accompanies him and his team as a medical supervisor to his father's home. After the first reunion with his father, a gallery owner he also lives with, and a first game with the Amsterdam ice hockey team, strange things happen.

A young man, Leo van Gulden, the painter's son, suddenly became very interested in Bas-Boris and his family. He follows the ice hockey player and tries to get into conversation with him.

An art print of an oil painting by Van Gogh , on which a boy in oil clothing, with a hood and raincoat is depicted and which he sees in his father's gallery, aroused the interest of Bas-Boris. The boy's resemblance to Bas-Boris Bode is amazing. This picture now follows him every step of the way and even at night it never lets go of him.

He thinks he is dreaming when one day he faces his likeness, in a hood and raincoat. Bas-Boris Bode has a doppelganger. He sees him himself on the ice, under the mask of a fellow player, but before he can catch him he has already disappeared again.

Staying in Amsterdam is becoming more and more mysterious. During a visit with his father to the art lover Frans van Gulden's castle in a children's room, he rediscovered toys from his childhood. A yo-yo and his first ice skates pose a mystery to him. Despite the statements by his parents that he has never been here, Bas-Boris is slowly beginning to doubt himself and his origins. Since old van Gulden and Hendrikje, his housekeeper, also recognize him as his grandson Vincent, who drowned eight years ago, the boy now believes himself that he is the millionaire's grandson.

After several encounters and fruitless attempts at persecution, Bas-Boris finally succeeds in confronting his doppelganger. He then takes off a rubber mask, which reveals the boy's true face. It is the red-haired Jaap, a Dutch boy who lives on the street and was forced by the Chinese underworld boss van Ling to appear in the mask of Bas-Boris Bode and in the oil clothing of the "fisherman's boy", in order to remember the heritage and the people Approaching painting by the wealthy Frans van Gulden. Leo, van Gulden's son, fell out with his father after the fatal accident and hopes in this way to be able to settle his high debts with van Ling. The senior with heart disease should be made compliant by confronting his supposedly dead grandson.

Meanwhile, Bas-Boris Bode befriends Jaap and helps him to hide from Van Ling's gang and the police. In addition, he is always drawn to Frans van Gulden's villa. He persuades his father to spend the night there with him. Van Gulden, who intends to sell his valuable paintings, is stolen that night. The picture with the boy also disappeared the next morning. The commissioner, who has had a certain distrust of Rutger Bode for some time and does not let Bas-Boris Bode and his parents out of his sight, is investigating this case as well and is surprised when he finds Rutger Bode of all people in the house.

Who is the mysterious black motorcyclist who always appears out of nowhere and disappears just as quickly?

Bas-Boris Bode tries to find out who he really is.

production

Bas-Boris Bode was produced by the German Magnet -Filmproduktionsgesellschaft Berlin and in collaboration with the Dutch AVRO broadcast company. The series was shot in Berlin and Amsterdam.

Soundtrack

The main actor Mikael Martin sang the theme song "Bas-Boris Bode" after it was found during test recordings that the Dutchman also has a very good voice. Mikael Martin also sang the song "Me Myself And I", both songs were produced by Robert Pferdmenges and Jiri Kanzelsberger and were released in 1985 as a 7 "single by Teldec (6.14448 AC). The two songs are also included on an LP, also released in 1985 by Teldec (6.26216 AP), as are all pieces of music from the series.

DVD release

Bas-Boris Bode was released for the first time in Germany on DVD on November 17th, 2008 under the brand name “Die ZDF Kinder-Klassiker” . The six-part series was published on two DVDs with a total running time of approx. 270 minutes of 45 minutes per episode.

Universum Film released the DVD in an unrestored version, the picture format is 4: 3 (full screen) and the sound is in Dolby Digital 1.0. The DVD is released from the age of twelve.

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In addition to the idea and the joint script with Justus Pfaue, Harry Baer also directed.

It was the first film role for the then 16-year-old Dutchman Mikael Martin, he was selected from among several ice hockey players at a casting . Today Mikael Martin works as a director in an Amsterdam theater.

As the ice hockey player Lutz, the then 17-year-old, still unknown, Jürgen Vogel can be seen in one of his first roles. In the second episode, Dirk Bach and Ralph Morgenstern also act as bar owners in a short scene.

The main actor Mikael Martin was dubbed by the well-known radio play and dubbing actor Oliver Rohrbeck because he did not speak German enough. The role of Frans van Gulden was dubbed by Friedrich W. Bauschulte , who is also the Lt. Stone spoke in The Streets of San Francisco .

In 1989, Bas-Boris Bode was repeated on ZDF in twelve parts of 25 minutes each and in 1997 it was broadcast again on the children's channel as a six-part series .

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