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Toto the Hero (1991)

Toto the Hero (1991)

Drama Comedy Fantasy
Release Date: 1991, May 17
Directors: Jaco Van Dormael
Countries: Belgium, Germany, France
Production: Iblis Films, Pan-Européenne, Triton Pictures
Cast: Pascal Duquenne, Alice van Dormael, Hugo Harold-Harrison, Michel Bouquet, Mireille Perrier, Josse De Pauw, Sandrine Blancke, Gisela Uhlen, Jo De Backer, Didier Ferney, Thomas Godet, Peter Böhlke

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.

Keywords:

flashback unreliable narrator future magic realism childhood switched at birth