Plot Summary: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 ...
This is a sensitive film about human solidarity filled with humor and poetry.
伯努瓦·马吉梅尔,梅兰尼·蒂埃里,尼古拉斯·迪佛休尔,西尔维·泰斯蒂,德尼·波达利德斯,茱莉·费瑞尔,克洛蒂尔德·埃斯姆,克莱门特·史鲍尼,马克·鲁赫曼,让-克劳德·古卢姆伯格,Christian Taponard,Francesco Calabrese,弗兰克·古拉,Elisa Ruschke,Ondine Barry