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Directed by | Brady Corbet |
Screenplay by | Brady Corbet Mona Fastvold |
Based on | The Childhood of a Leader by Jean-Paul Sartre |
Produced by | Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre Chris Coen Brady Corbet Ron Curtis Helena Danielsson Mona Fastvold István Major |
Starring | Bérénice Bejo Liam Cunningham Stacy Martin Robert Pattinson Tom Sweet |
Cinematography | Lol Crawley |
Edited by | Dávid Jancsó |
Music by | Scott Walker |
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Running time | 116 minutes[3] |
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Budget | $5 million[5] |
Box office | $245,546[6] |
The Childhood of a Leader is a 2015 historical drama film, co-written, co-produced and directed by Brady Corbet,[7] in his feature film directorial debut.[8] It is loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre's short story of the same name, published in 1939 in a collection entitled The Wall.[9] Corbet co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Mona Fastvold.[10][11]
The film is a co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Sweden, France, Canada and Belgium,[1][12] and chronicles the childhood of a fascist leader in the period immediately following World War I.[2][13] Production began in early 2015, in Budapest, (Hungary).[14] The film had its world premiere in competition in the Horizon section at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival on 5 September 2015,[15] and won two awards at the festival, Best Debut film and Best Director.[16]
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