Lord of the Toys

May 23, 2019

1h 35m

★ 7.0

Waste your youth!

Overview

Max "Adlersson" Herzberg, 20 years of age, from Dresden decided not to spend his life working. Ever since, he reviews knives and other products, unboxes limited fan editions of mainly gangsta rap albums, gives talks about himself, drinks, swears and bawls in town, humiliates others, cracks borderline jokes and crosses every boundary he sees - Max is a YouTube creator and makes a decent living off of it. Most of Max's friends have their own channels on YouTube, some even quite successfully. Max and his gang are dubious role models but without a doubt, they are celebrities of their generation having more than 300.000 active fans. Is Max a violence-glorifying influencer with far-right tendencies or a usual adolescent, just trying to find himself and happens to be born into a time where the lines between private life and public self-display are blurring? He might be both, possibly without being overly aware of it.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

Production Companies

Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

Lord of the Toys Trailers

Cast

Self

Max Herzberg

Self

Frederic Seibt

Self

Inkognito Spastiko

Self

Thomas Herzberg

Self

Hector Panzer

Self

Patrick Gamel Singh

Self

Sascha Der Hausherr

Narrator (voice)

Maximiliane Häcke

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