David: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

David is a Flemish telenovela. It was the third telenovela of VTM and it followed the highly successful Sara and its successor LouisLouise. The story is about a young boy, David, who gets lost on an island. He's found there after 15 years by a young woman who brings him to civilization.

During an exotic holiday boat trip in the Dominican Republic, David falls from its boat and gets separated from his family. His family starts a search but without any result. They stop searching because the authorities makes them believe that David drowned in the water. But David survived but with amnesia, and ended up on a lost island without any living human.

15 years later David is discovered by Sofie Klaerhout, a young woman who is travelling with her family. The family Klaerhout brings David to their home city Koksijde to modern civilization where David has to adapt himself. Sofie and the gardener of the family, Maarten, take care about David but not everybody has such good intentions with the young man.

Step by step, David becomes able to enter modern civilization. By doing this, his memory returns. Sofie and David become very close and fall in love. Sofie starts a search for David's family. At the end, Sofie is able to reunite David with his father. David and Sofie get married and travel with David's father to Miami. Together, David & Sofie will start a new life in the area around the Amazon

Series details

• Title: David
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Dutch
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2009-09-18
• Final broadcast date listed: 2010-06-30
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: VTM
• Network country: Belgium
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 7057
• IMDb ID: tt1467394
• TVDB ID: 285520

Cast and credited roles

• Sandrine André — Lotte Naessens
• Jeroen Van Dyck — David Verbeecke
• Nathalie Meskens — Sofie Klaerhout
• Bram Van Outryve — Tim Klaerhout
• Ides Meire — Robbie Stevaert
• Steve Aernouts — Sander Verbiest
• Warre Borgmans — Ludo Wellen
• Pieter Bamps — Pieter Wellens

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-09-18; final listed air date 2010-06-30; episode order: 208.

Source and licence

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