Busters verden
Busters verden is a Danish children's television series and movie from 1984. Based on a play by Bjarne Reuter, Buster's verden deals with the experiences of young Buster Oregon Mortensen. The television series was a break-through for director Bille August, and the soundtrack also provided a hit for the young singer Nanna Lüders Jensen.
Background
The television series was based on a play by Danish author Bjarne Reuter. In 1984 Reuter published his collection Tre skuespil ; a collection containing also En dag i Hector Hansens liv and Kom der lys i neonrøret, gutter? - in addition to Busters Verden. Director Bille August had already worked with Reuter, on the 1983 movie Zappa where August's script was based on a book by Reuter. August was still a relatively unknown director outside Denmark at the time, but the success he had with Buster helped pave the way for his international break-through with the Oscar-winning Pelle the Conqueror in 1989.Television series
The protagonist of the series is Buster Oregon Mortensen, played by Mads Bugge Andersen. Buster's father is an unemployed magician, from whom Buster learns to perform magic tricks. Buster also has a younger sister called Ingeborg, who has a disability referred to as a "stiff leg". Both Buster and his sister are frequently bullied by other kids in school, but he maintains a positive outlook on life, and is confirmed in his optimism when he meets and falls in love with the piano child prodigy Joanna.The series consisted of six episodes of twenty minutes each, that aired between 7 January and 11 February 1984:
- Episode 1: The school Buster attends is celebrating the 25-year anniversary for the principal. Buster is meant to do a magic trick for entertainment, but ends up spoiling the party.
- Episode 2: Ingeborg is being bullied by Store-Lars, and Buster intervenes for his sister.
- Episode 3: While distributing milk on his bike, Buster meets the young piano prodigy Joanna, and falls in love.
- Episode 4: Ingeborg, as a girl scout, is organising a party in the vicar's garden, and Buster helps.
- Episode 5: Buster is not doing well in school and the teachers believe that magic takes up too much of his time.
- Episode 6: Johanna invites Buster to perform at her party, but the snobbish guests were expecting Johanna's piano playing, not Buster's magic tricks.