Yo Ho Ho (1981) [N/A]
Featuring:
Kiril Variyski, Viktor Chouchkov, Iliya Penev
Written by:
Valeri Petrov
Directed by:
Zako Heskiya
Release Date:
October 5, 1981
Original Title:
Йо-хо-хо
Alternate Titles:
Johohoho!
Yo ho ho
Йо Хо Х о
Genres:
Adventure | Drama | Romance
Production Companies:
Boyana Film
Production Countries:
Bulgaria
Ratings / Certifications:
BG: C
Runtime: 98
This is a sensitive film about human solidarity filled with humor and poetry; a bedridden man regales a child with a story about pirates while asking him to fetch some "pills".
A young actor with his backbone broken (he is crippled after a bad fall on the stage) is being treated in a hospital. He is invalidated for good and he wills not to live further on. He gets acquainted with a 10-year-old boy, Leonid, from the adjoining room. The boy is spending time in hospital with an arm in a plastic cast. They make friends. In fact, the actor intends to use the kid to provide him with poison. He starts telling a marvelous fairy tale. "Yo-ho-ho" - this old refrain of a pirate song is all too familiar. For the sake of the boy the Actor invents stories about the good buccaneer who is fighting the evil ruler Alvarez who must be punished for his crimes. Little by little the real people in hospital are transformed into the imaginary heroes of the pirate stories that the Actor and the child vanquished by goodness, honesty and self-denial. The boy is fascinated. Gradually, this pre-planned friendship develops into sincere devotion and affection. Leonid's attachment to his older friend, and his trustfulness and good heart make the Actor abandon his plan of suicide and restore his faith in life. He realizes that life is worth living it, even if paralyzed.
