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3 unusual facts about Jaco Van Dormael


Jaco Van Dormael

He wanted to make a more linear film than Toto le héros, one which explored the world through the eyes of a man with Down syndrome.

In 1999, Toto le héros received the Best Belgian Screenplay 1984–1999 Award at the 13th Joseph Plateau Awards.

The film utilizes nonlinear narrative and the many-worlds interpretation to tell the life story of the last mortal on Earth, Nemo Nobody, portrayed by Jared Leto.


Pan-Européenne

By distributing films such as Jaco Van Dormael's Toto the Hero (1991), Cyril Collard's Savage Nights (1992), and Jacques Audiard's See How They Fall (1994), Pan-Européenne began its activity of production company.


see also

Starting block

Stade 81 (Starting Blocks), a 1981 short documentary film directed by Jaco Van Dormael