Leatherlip (1972)

overview : 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...

Release Date : Jun 23, 1972

Runtime : 1h 30m

Genre : Adventure  Drama  

Companies : Assegai Film, Kinekor Films

Countries : South Africa

Keywords : surfing, surfer, suicide attempt, sandstorm, south africa, hippie lifestyle, trike, antelope, sexploitation, free spirit, nervous breakdown, kalahari, road movie, modeling, cape town, south africa, lost film, drag racing, spiritual quest