The Life of Sean DeLear (2024)

The Life of Sean DeLear is a vibrantly multi-faceted, buoyantly propulsive documentary portrait of this irresistibly charismatic one-off — sketched in celebratory but commendably clear-eyed style by writer-director Markus Zizenbacher. There can be very few people better qualified to do justice to this particular tale. Zizenbacher befriended DeLear — born Anthony Robertson in Simi Valley, an obscure California backwater — after the latter relocated to Vienna in the early 2010s.

Cast (21)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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Sean DeLear

Self

Ann Magnuson

Self

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Scott Ewalt

Self

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Steve McDonald

Self

Jeppe Beck Laursen

Self

Susan Tyrrell

Self (archive footage)

Michèle Lamy

Self

Rick Owens

Self

A

Ali Janka

Self

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Helen Parkes

Voice Over

Richard Pursel

Self

P

Peter Tomlinson

Self

P

Pleasant Gehman

Self

John Sex

Self

Mike Watt

Self

D

Denise Brown

Self

M

Michael Bullock

Self

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Slava Mogutin

Self

Jeremy O. Harris

Self

Juliana Huxtable

Self

C

Cesar Padilla

Self

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