My friend the pirate
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German title | My friend the pirate |
Original title | Йо-хо-хо |
Country of production | Bulgaria |
original language | Bulgarian |
Publishing year | 1981 |
length | 90 minutes |
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Director | Sako Cheskija |
script | Valery Petrov |
music | Kiril Donchev |
camera | Stefan Trifonow |
cut | Wentsislava Karaneschewa |
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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.
Web links
- My friend, the pirate in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My friend, the pirate in the dictionary of international films