Toto the Hero

• Michel Bouquet: the old Toto
• Thomas Godet: Toto as a child
• Gisela Uhlen: old Evelyne
• Mireille Perier: young Evelyne
• Sandrine Blancke: Alice
• Peter Bohlke: old Alfred
• Didier Ferney: adult Alfred
• Hugo Harold Harrison: Alfred as a child
• Klaus Schindler: father of Toto
• Fabienne Loriaux: Mother of Toto
• Didier De Neck: father of Alfred
• Christine Smeysters: Mother of Alfred
• Pascal Duquenne: adult Célestin
• Karim Moussati: Célestin Parents

Toto the Hero is a tragicomedy of Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael (whose directorial debut, the film ), who tells in complex temporal advantages and flashbacks of the missed opportunities in a man's life.

The film was released on 19 June 1991 in the French and 14 November 1991 the German cinemas.

Action

" Toto " (actually Thomas van Hasebroeck ) is satisfied as an old lonely man in the nursing home that he Alfred Kant, who was in his childhood, his neighbor and grew up in a wealthy family, chances robbed in life. While he was " Toto the Hero" was as a child, he later led an uneventful life as a surveyor. Not only did he fantasizes that they have both been swapped in a fire in a hospital in the cradle, he falls in love as a young man in Evelyne, which proves to be later than Alfred's wife. Revenge fantasies, daydreams of a " heroic " Childhood and perhaps a different running life, memories of his childhood (and its close relationship with his unfortunate sister Alice) and sober reality alternate in the movie scenes. Last Decides " Toto " to take revenge on Alfred.

Reviews

" A laced with tragedy and comedy understanding character study. In virtuoso nesting of space, time, reality and dream with the sensuality of the poetic image, she describes the heterogeneity human being and has the childhood and the age of the best ways for art intensely lived life to. "

Awards

The film received numerous awards: