Directed by:
Jaco Van DormaelScreenplay:
Jaco Van DormaelCinematography:
Walther Vanden EndeComposer:
Pierre van DormaelCast:
Michel Bouquet, Mireille Perrier, Sandrine Blancke, Klaus Schindler, Pascal Duquenne, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Harry Cleven, Bouli Lanners, Bernard Yerlès (more)Plots(1)
Former circus performer Jaco Van Dormael made his feature-film directing bow with the Belgian/French/German coproduction Toto Le Héros. The title character is an fictional supersecret agent, idolized by a young boy named Thomas. The lad aspires to become Toto when he grows up; but thanks to a kaleidoscope of flashbacks and flashforwards, we know that he'll end up ordinary and unfulfilled. The film hopscotches between the Three Ages of Thomas: wide-eyed youngster, mediocrity-mired adult, bitter old man. The elder Thomas has never gotten over his childhood traumas and hatreds. He was always jealous of his wealthy boyhood friend Alfred, fantasizing that he and his chum were switched at birth. At the end, the aged Thomas escapes from a senior citizens' home -- an act which leads to Fate dealing its final ironic blow. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Michel Bouquet
France
Best movies:
Two Men in Town (1973)
Les Misérables (1982)
This Special Friendship (1964)
Mireille Perrier
France
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
Nos femmes (2015)
Mauvais Sang (1986)
Sandrine Blancke
Belgium
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
Daaaaaalí! (2023)
Love According to Dalva (2022)
Klaus Schindler
West Germany
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Equilibrium (2002)
Pascal Duquenne
Belgium
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
Mr. Nobody (2009)
The Eighth Day (1996)
Nicolas Duvauchelle
France
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
Good Work (1999)
Polisse (2011)
Harry Cleven
Belgium
Best movies:
Mina Tannenbaum (1994)
Toto the Hero (1991)
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Bouli Lanners
Belgium
Best movies:
A Town Called Panic (2009)
Toto the Hero (1991)
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Bernard Yerlès
Belgium
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
Miss Drot (2010) (TV movie)
L'Auberge de la Jamaïque (1995) (TV movie)
Josse De Pauw
Belgium
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
The Eighth Day (1996)
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
Michel Robin
France
Best movies:
Les Petites Fugues (1979)
Amelie (2001)
The Confession (1970)
Jean-Henri Compère
Belgium
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
The Eighth Day (1996)
Oleg (2019)
Alexandre von Sivers
Best movies:
Mina Tannenbaum (1994)
A Town Called Panic (2009)
Toto the Hero (1991)
Gisela Uhlen
German Empire
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
The Indian Scarf (1963)
Françoise Bette
Belgium
Best movies:
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977)
I... For Icarus (1979)
Jury of One (1974)
Fabienne Loriaux
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
The Eighth Day (1996)
Soeur sourire (2009)
Fujio Ishimaru
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance (2001) (TV movie)
Peter Böhlke
Poland
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
Hannibal Brooks (1969)
Die wilden Fünfziger (1983)
Jo Deseure
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
My Angel (2004)
Soeur sourire (2009)
Hugo Harold-Harrison
Best movies:
Toto the Hero (1991)
Mr. Nobody (2009)