• 2002
  • 45m
De bende van Wim

Summary Flemish 'mature' celebrity buddies actor Wim Opboruck, photographer Michiel Hendryckx and musician Jean Blaute tour several European countries, roughly around home Belgium, on motorbikes. They visit places of interest to one or more of them, often related to musical celebrities, Michiel's memories from voyages as a youth and various fields of interest. View more details

  • 2002
  • 45m

De bende van Wim

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Wim Opbrouck Michiel Hendryckx Jean Blaute Jan Steen

All cast & crew

7.6

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Genres : Documentary Reality-TV

Release date : Dec 5, 2002

Countries of origin : Belgium

Language : Dutch

Summary Flemish 'mature' celebrity buddies actor Wim Opboruck, photographer Michiel Hendryckx and musician Jean Blaute tour several European countries, roughly around home Belgium, on motorbikes. They visit places of interest to one or more of them, often related to musical celebrities, Michiel's memories from voyages as a youth and various fields of interest. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary Reality-TV

Release date : Dec 5, 2002

Countries of origin : Belgium

Language : Dutch

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De bende van Wim (2002)

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Episode 1 • Dec 05, 2002
Met de helm geboren
Actor Wim Opbrouck gathers a trio of Flelish minor celebrities, including nearly as chubby press photographer and musician jean Blaute. After an attempt to be poetic in Ostend port, they set out on an unplanned 'European tour widely around Belgium' on motorbikes, a common boy's dream. They start following the Belgian North Sea coast, then cross the French border continuing in old Flanders, enjoying the simply countryside pleasures. they visits the abandoned coal mine, guided by former miners who were extras when Gerlinal was shot there. Final the legendary stone roads from the Paris Roubaix cycling classic.
Episode 2 • Dec 12, 2002
Vive les motards
The trio rides on along the Somme Great war front, yet basically just appreciates it, like most French locals, as Route Sacrée often passed by the Tour de France cycling race, fraternizing with 'motards' (sports reporters on motorbikes) until Verdun. Next stop is Domrémy, the peasant birthplace of Joan of D'Arc. After discussing theories that she was in fact an illegitimate half-blood French royal, they fake piety to toy with the local basilica's abbé (French for either abbot or Catholic priest in general).
Episode 3 • Dec 19, 2002
De angst voor het cliché
The trio drives to the Burgundy , first unable to resist the joys of Bourgogne wine and discussing the prestigious sector's glory and perils. Mochiel is on pilgrimage here to the home, on a modest wine estate, of photography pioneer Nicéphore Niepce, whose descendants they meet there.
Episode 4 • Dec 26, 2002
Een bocht te ver
The trio tastes Alpine motorbiking in Switzerland. First they visit the country's unique motorbike army division, which invites them to join a recruits training. Enjoying famous slopes, they meet a local who arranges for skiing enthusiast Wim to try the new type with a mate of his, a fine instructor. Relaxing in mountain meadows, only Wim dares a swim, the trio meets an old bachelor local whose passion is his well-kept motorbike.
Episode 5 • Jan 02, 2003
Drie ezels
Crossing the Bodensee by ferry, the trio enters southwestern Germany in Baden Würtemberg. Aboard they met an employee of the surviving, modernized zeppelin museum and factory. Next the Hohner firm which produces traditional mouth organs, Blaute's thing. Then the family farm where Michiel, traveling to Greece as a youth, wrote a book and borrowed a tractor, still in working order, for the rest of that long journey.
Episode 6 • Jan 09, 2003
Loeiend hard
The trio returns close to home, at Schengen, where Belgium's tiny neighbor Luxemburg, the host, meets Germany and France. Three burgomasters/mayors testify how akin the neighbors are in culinary and other matters, and how much the EU open borders group treaty signed there did to eliminate border troubles and smuggling. Then into Germany's 'forgotten treasure', the quiet Eifel region.
Episode 7 • Jan 16, 2003
Pech onderweg
The trio leaves Germany over the Dutch border. O the way to Holland, they meet and admire a bikers unit of the 'maréchaussée' (national police). They also help out a punk motor-biker, who turns out to be a member of a gay club and introduces them to their Rotterdam club house. It is fully equipped for parties, sex games and fetishes, even BDSM, which are discussed and demonstrated. Blaute can't resist visiting the music-shop where John Lennon, still unknown, once pinched a mouth organ.
Episode 8 • Jan 23, 2003
Taxi naar Admiral Grove
The trio makes a pilgrimage in honor of Blaute's rock heroes: the Beatles. That means a trip to their native port city, Liverpool. They meet a scooter club and visit various places which inspired the first mega pop band's greatest hits.
Episode 9 • Jan 30, 2003
Onder het melkwoud
The trio's next biking routes are in Britain, starting on the Welsh coast. They're on pilgrimages to bucolic there places which inspired hard rock band Led Zeppelin's softer repertoire and Welsh irreverent poet Dylan Thomas. They also meet an eccentric veterinarian.
Episode 10 • Feb 06, 2003
My kingdom for a bike
In this season finale, the trio completes its tour, despite Jean's motorbike being stolen, in southern England. First to the village where anonymously retired Lawrence of Arabia died in a motorbike accident. Next the Neolithic megaliths ring at Avesbury, bigger but much rougher the Stonehenge and barely preserved. The Stratford on Avon and Oxford, on the trail of the bard. Finally on the ship from Dover to family reunions in Ostend and first Michiel's 'gay outing'.
Episode 11 • Feb 13, 2003
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