Yo Ho Ho
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Zako Heskiya
Written by	Valeri Petrov
Produced by	Nikola Vulchev
Starring	Kiril Variyski Viktor Chouchkov Iliya Penev Anani Anev Sonya Djulgerova Kirill Kavadarkov
Cinematography	Stefan Trifonov
Distributed by	Boyana Film
Release dates	July 1981 (1981-07) (Moscow) 5 October 1981 (1981-10-05) (Bulgaria)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Bulgaria
Language	Bulgarian

Yo Ho Ho (Bulgarian: Йо-хо-хо) is a 1981 Bulgarian drama film directed by Zako Heskiya and written by Valeri Petrov. It was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Prize.^[1] The 2006 film The Fall by Tarsem Singh is based on Yo Ho Ho.^[2]

A 10-year-old boy with a broken arm befriends a young, paraplegic actor in the hospital. Together, the two make up a pirate story in which they play the main roles. The boy, Leonid, starts to visit the actor's room, which also houses a poor old man, every day. 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 for the actor, who no longer has any joy in life and plans a suicide. It is only when the boy falls down and hits his head during one of those occurrences, that the actor realises that life has meaning as long as you have friends.

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

• Kiril Variyski as the Actor / the Black Pirate
• Viktor Chouchkov as Leonid
• Iliya Penev as Unpleasant Old Man / the Governor
• Anani Anev as Gogo / Sitting Bull
• Sonya Djulgerova as Nurse Ceci / Cicilly
• Kirill Kavadarkov as Van Lun
• Georgi Bakhchevanov as Rosko
• Trifon Dzhonev as Luigi
• Boris Lukanov as the Professor
• Rut Spasova as Leonid's mother
• Vasil Stoychev as the Actor's colleague

• Yo Ho Ho at IMDb
• Yo Ho Ho at Bulgarian National Film Archive