My friend the pirate

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Movie
German title My friend the pirate
Original title Йо-хо-хо
Country of production Bulgaria
original language Bulgarian
Publishing year 1981
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Sako Cheskija
script Valery Petrov
music Kiril Donchev
camera Stefan Trifonow
cut Wentsislava Karaneschewa
occupation

My friend the pirate is a Bulgarian children's film from 1981 .

action

A 10-year-old boy with a broken arm befriends a young, paraplegic actor in the hospital. Together, the two think up a pirate story in which they play the main roles. Every day the boy, Leonid, comes to the actor's room, which also houses a poor old man. In the made-up story, he becomes the evil adversary of the pirates.

Little by little, everyone in the hospital gets their roles in the story. Leonid is fascinated. But in order for the story to continue, the boy has to steal bottles of medicine from the actor. The sick person no longer has any joy in life. Only when the child falls down and bumps his head during such an action, but does not reveal anything, does the actor realize that life has meaning as long as you have friends.

At the end of the - real and fictional - story, the two even resist the villain in the room and hijack his sick bed with a cane.

background

The film had its world premiere in July 1981 during the Moscow International Film Festival . It was shown in Bulgarian cinemas on October 5, 1981. The German-language first broadcast was on August 7, 1988 on the East German television station DFF 2 .

The fantasy film The Fall , released in 2006, is a remake of My Friend the Pirate . The Indian director Tarsem Singh took Petrow's script as a template and occasionally rewrote it. So the boy Leonid became little Alexandria.

Awards

The film has won several awards. When it premiered in 1981, it received the Special Jury Prize at the Moscow International Cinema Festival. In the same year he was awarded the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers ( Съюза на българските филмови дейци ) for the best script, the best direction and the best music . At the Bulgarian Film Festival ( на Фестивала на българския игрален филм ) in Varna in 1982 he received the first prize and an award for the best screenplay.

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