James Dean: Little Prince, Little Bastard (2005) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

2005 · 52 mins · English

Directed by

André Schäfer, Werner Köhne

Starring

James Dean, Alex LaFrance, Robert Heller, William Bast, Cathy Haase, Marcus Winslow Jr.

The turned‑up collar of his coat in New York, together with iconic images, forged the myth of an eternal, misunderstood youth. While Marlon Brando played a proletarian rebel with clear goals, Dean became a timeless, androgynous youthful rebel. His fatal crash on Interstate 46 returns us to 1950s America, when ideas of youth were being reinvented.