
The Candidate
2013-10-10 · 106 min · ★ 6.6
The story of the film The Candidate takes place during two months of campaigning before a non-specific presidential election in one specific country. The author of the diary entries has no idea for whom he is recording the eavesdropping and enthusiasm for an interesting job in which he follows a bishop, a crazy owner of an advertising agency and a bland presidential candidate with the eloquent name Peter Potôň and an even sweeter-sounding family history, soon give way to disgust and confusion. His diary becomes a file with transcripts of conversations, information about characters and characters, emails, scraps from psychiatric medical records and pictures, which he scribbles at first out of boredom, later because words and rational explanations are no longer enough. The candidate is a political farce, a sad-funny depiction of what happened, is happening, and could very easily happen in this small country.
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Production details
- Directors
- Jonáš Karásek
- Production companies
- Azyl Production, B Digital
- Countries
- Czech Republic, Slovakia
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- USD 250,000
- Revenue
- USD 540,000
Top Cast
Marek Majeský
Monika Hilmerová
Michal Dlouhý
Michal Kubovčík
Pavel Slabý
Ján Jackuliak
Pavel Nový
Roman Luknár
Alice Bendová
Petra Molnárová
Marián Mitaš
Milan Chalmovský
Lukáš Pelč
Dušan Vicen
Lucia Molnárová
Danica Matušová
Judit Pecháček
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