
Toto the Hero (1991)
Original Title: Toto le héros
Comedy
Drama
Fantasy
7.1 (110 votes)
1h 31m
Overview
80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.
Details
- Director
- Jaco Van Dormael
- Writer
- Laurette Vankeerberghen
- Original Language
- French
- Budget
- N/A
Cast
Didier Ferney
Gisela Uhlen
Hugo Harold-Harrison
Jo De Backer
Michel Bouquet
Mireille Perrier
Pascal Duquenne
Peter Böhlke
Sandrine Blancke
Thomas Godet
Keywords
childhood
flashback
future
magic realism
switched at birth
unreliable narrator
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