Leatherlip

Story

Synopsis

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...

Director

Stuart Pringle

Writers

Stuart Pringle

Language

English

Country

South Africa

Release date

23 June 1972

Ensemble

Cast

• Evon de Meistre

  Stienie

• Richard Loring

  One night stand guy

• Whotsie

  Injured San (Bushman)

• Bill Brewer

  Stienie’s father

• 

  Tim Hughes

  Leatherlip

• Eben Nel

• 

  Tony Jay