Kapitein Zeppos

TV Series
1964–1969
30m

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Suspicion rises in the quiet little village of Belder when a strange horse back rider arrives in town: Jan Stephorst. In Greece, he was called Zeppos, has inherited the beautiful Belderbos c... Read allSuspicion rises in the quiet little village of Belder when a strange horse back rider arrives in town: Jan Stephorst. In Greece, he was called Zeppos, has inherited the beautiful Belderbos castle. He was offered a huge amount of money for the castle, but he declines the offer and... Read allSuspicion rises in the quiet little village of Belder when a strange horse back rider arrives in town: Jan Stephorst. In Greece, he was called Zeppos, has inherited the beautiful Belderbos castle. He was offered a huge amount of money for the castle, but he declines the offer and starts an investigation on his own to try and find out who is behind the offer. Together ... Read all

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Initially, Ward de Ravet was cast as Zeppos, but he was ill when shooting started, so Senne Rouffaer took over the part. Because he was also directing, he had to be on the set every day anyway.

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Living it Up
by Bert Kaempfert

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10/10

Old-fashioned but still charming

Kapitein Zeppos was and still is one of the most popular Belgian television series made for the youth. Made in b/w 4 years before I even was born and in a time the Belgian Television (BRT) still had (or wanted to spend) budgets to make good television series for the youth.

When you look back at now it all looks very old-fashioned and the filming & acting is by times very clumsy (no slang language and every dialog is in perfect theater-dutch) but still it is and stays one of the best television series (Only 'De Kat' was better in my opinion) made for the youth although the story is a bit slow by times.

It's a bit strange to see all those actors who are now 60+ (some of them are even dead) in their younger years. Senne Rouffaer (who's also the director) plays Kapitein 'Jan Stephorst' Zeppos in such a great way that every time when I see him I ask myself the question 'Why didn't they made a movie of the Belgian cartoon character Tintin with him in the part of Tintin ???'

Kapitein Zeppos is a must see if you're thirty-something like me just for nostalgic reasons.