A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, through their teenage rebellion in the eighties and the summer of 1989, when their life changed forever, to 2011.

Der Kandidat

1980

German

6.6

♡ 4

Action

Documentary

Volker Schlöndorff Director

Marianne Strauss as Herself

Willy Brandt as Self

Helmut Kohl as Self

Kurt-Georg Kiesinger as Self

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and present and Franz Josef Strauß, the man who, as the CDU/CSU candidate, aspires to be elected to the most important political office in the land.

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Der Kandidat