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The Childhood of a Leader
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The chilling story of a young American boy living in France in 1918 whose father is working for the US government on the creation of the Treaty of Versailles. What he witnesses helps to mold his beliefs – and we witness the birth of a terrifying ego.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to austere psychological portraits of emerging extremism, ominous atmosphere, and gradual character transformation.
- Tone
- eerie, bleak, cerebral
- Payoff
- unease, revelation
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- episodic
- Themes
- authoritarianism, childhood, ideology, family power, moral corruption
- Setting
- early twentieth-century postwar period, isolated diplomatic estate in rural France
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