Movie·1972·1h 30m

Leatherlip

Country

South Africa

Language

English

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// overview

The Story

A super-model begins to question her glitzy, frenetic lifestyle when she awakes after a all night party to find a strange man in her bed. She sees a surfer riding the waves below, follows him to his tented camp on the banks of a river. 'Leatherlip' earns a living making leather goods and roaming around on an extraordinary 'trike' with his worldly goods and surfboard strapped on an overhead rack. They fall in love and she abandons her previous life. Then inexplicably she disappears. Leatherlip sets off on a cross-country odyssey to find her, knowing only that her father lives on a boat on the West Coast...

Producer

Ferdi de Souza

Cinematography

Dave Dunn-Yarker

Editor

Tommy Doig

Themes

surfingsurfersuicide attemptsandstormsouth africahippie lifestyletrikeantelopesexploitationfree spiritnervous breakdownkalahari

Production House

Assegai Film
Kinekor Films

Audience Score

40%

1 votes

Skip22%
Timepass50%
Go for it23%
Perfection5%

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// cast

Cast

Evon de Meistre

Stienie

Richard Loring

One night stand guy

Whotsie

Injured San (Bushman)

Bill Brewer

Stienie’s father

Tim Hughes

Tim Hughes

Leatherlip

Tim Hughes

Tim Hughes

Eben Nel

Tony Jay

Tony Jay

// crew

Crew

Stuart Pringle

Writer, Director

Tommy Doig

Editor

Dave Dunn-Yarker

Director of Photography

Ferdi de Souza

Producer

Bill Pullen

Editor

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