The secret of the seventh way

Television broadcast
German title	The secret of the seventh way
Original title	De Zevensprong
Country of production	Netherlands
original language	Dutch
year	1982
length	25 minutes
Episodes	13
genre	Mystery
First broadcast	September 30, 1982 on Nederland 2
German-language first broadcast	June 17, 1984 on German television
occupation
Peter Bos : Frans van der Steg (voice actor: Claus Ringer ) Jeanique de Ridder . Marjan ( Scarlet Lubowski ) Martijn Nieuwerf: Maarten ( Philipp Brammer ) Czeslaw de Wijs: Geert-Jan ( Manou Lubowski ) Bart Gabrielse: Roberto / Mopro ( Matthias von Stegmann ) Ferd Hugas : Count Grauenstein ( Horst Naumann ) Kitty Jansen : Aunt Willemijn ( Christa Berndl ) Floris Kippens: Kees ( Benny Brothers ) Marijke Merckens : Fräulein Rosemarijn ( Viktoria Brams ) Joost Prinsen : Jan Toereloer () Mirande van de Meer: Joke ( Britta Wahl ) Cor van Rijn: Jan Thomtidom ( Hartmut Reck ) Petra Waaijer: Els ( Alexandra Ludwig )

The secret of the seventh way (original title: De Zevensprong , dt. Der Siebensprung ) is a television series by the director Karst van der Meulen from 1982, based on the youth book of the same name by the Dutch author Tonke Dragt . It consists of 13 half-hour episodes. The German first broadcast took place from June 1984.

Table of contents

The teacher Frans van der Steg has recently moved in and has been teaching at the local school for three weeks when he receives a mysterious letter in which he is appointed as a private teacher for his nephew Geert-Jan by a Count Grauenstein. It turns out that Geert-Jan is being held captive in the so-called stairwell to look for a mysterious treasure that an ancestor's prophecy points to. Little by little, van der Steg uncovered riddles and mysteries surrounding a forest crossing called Siebensprung and a seven-man conspiracy.

consequences

1. The letter
2. The mopro
3. Appearance and reality
4. The plot
5. Miss Rosmarijn
6. The column with the cat's head
7. The seventh way
8. Geert-Jan Grauenstein
9. The treasure hunt
10. The golden key
11. Birthday plans
12. Green hair
13. The treasure

Trivia

Jan Thomtidom ( Cor van Rijn ), Jan Toereloer ( Joost Prinsen ), Juffrouw Rosmarijn ( Marijke Merckens ), Geert-Jan Grisenstijn ( Czeslaw de Wijs ), Frans van der Steg ( Peter Bos ) and Aunt Willemijn ( Kitty Janssen )

• The series was shot in the Achterhoek . The seven-jump junction and the stairwell are in Ruurlo , the house of Miss Rosemarijn in Gelselaar , the school in Markvelde and the house of Frans van der Stegs in Lochem . Karst van der Meulen also wrote the script for the series.
• The second episode ( Der Mopro ) shows the entrance of a cinema showing the youth film De Bende van Hiernaast , which was also shot in 1980 by Karst van der Meulen.
• When the idea of ​​publishing it on DVD arose in 2006, it turned out that the SWR had destroyed the material after the license expired and that the version broadcast in Germany was no longer available in archives. The DVD edition released in October 2007 therefore uses a digitally restored original Dutch version (recognizable by the opening credits). The German soundtrack was taken from privately made VHS recordings and brought to the usual level of DVD publications through extensive post-processing.

Web links

• The secret of the seventh path in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Secret of the Seventh Way in Google Book Search
• De Zevensprong (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Broadcast dates on wunschliste.de
2. ↑ Booklet for the DVD version, page 1