The Candidate

IMDb link: 0080983
IMDb rating: 6.5 (138 votes)
Genres: Documentary
Director: Volker Schlondorff, Alexander Kluge, Stefan Aust, Alexander von Eschwege
Cast: Wolf Biermann, Karl Carstens, Edmund Stoiber and others

Release date: 18 Apr 1980
Release year: 1980
Runtime: 129 minutes
Country: West Germany
Keywords: german politician, beer, alcohol, reference to franz josef strauss, conservatism, new german cinema, marquee, rivalry, election campaign, german politics

Plot:

In 1980 Franz Josef Strauss competed against Helmut Schmidt for the Office of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. To prevent this the first Garde German auteur staged an episode film to expose the candidate - mainly by citing speeches, with whom he appeared in public in the course of his political career.

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