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The Leading Man (1977)
Pepe is 15. His life in social misery changes completely when he is chosen as the main character of a film production. Shot on location where he lives with his primitive, brutal and authoritarian father, a pig farmer.
Keywords: imdb.new-german-cinema,
imdb.social-criticism,
imdb.film-director,
imdb.street-life,
imdb.actor,
imdb.setting-fire-to-a-theatre-foyer,
imdb.fictional-film-as-subject + 30 more,
imdb.parody,
imdb.northern-germany,
imdb.film-within-a-film,
imdb.running-away,
imdb.arson,
imdb.amateur-actor,
imdb.documentary-style,
imdb.munich-germany,
imdb.comic-relief,
imdb.autobiographical,
imdb.15-year-old,
imdb.authoritarian-father,
imdb.pseudo-intellectual,
imdb.rural-setting,
imdb.psychological-terror,
imdb.filmmaking-as-subject,
imdb.15-year-old-boy,
imdb.filmmaker,
imdb.troubled-teen,
imdb.smashing-a-car-window,
imdb.depression,
imdb.hotel-restaurant,
imdb.setting-fire-to-a-dump,
imdb.pig-farmer,
imdb.misery,
imdb.farm,
imdb.film-premiere,
imdb.father-son-relationship,
imdb.irony,
imdb.brutality
Production companies: Neue Bioskop Film,
WDR
Runtime: 91 min.
Released: Dec. 28, 1977
Status: Released
Certification: NR
