Jaco Van Dormael — Playwright (4)
Toto the Hero (1991) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Toto le héros
director:
Jaco Van Dormael
actor:
Michel Bouquet
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Thomas Godet
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other title:
Toto le heros - Un eroe di fine millennio
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Toto der Held
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80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.
The Eighth Day (1996) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Le Huitième Jour
director:
Jaco Van Dormael
actor:
Daniel Auteuil
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Pascal Duquenne
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other title:
L'ottavo giorno
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O Oitavo Dia
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Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
The Brand New Testament (2015) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Le Tout Nouveau Testament
director:
Jaco Van Dormael
actor:
Pili Groyne
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Benoît Poelvoorde
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other title:
Dio esiste e vive a Bruxelles
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Det SpritNye Testamente
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God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...