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The Candidate
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The Candidate

Oct 10, 2013
1h 46m
★ 6.6

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Azyl Production
B Digital

Cast

Marek Majeský

Marek Majeský

Monika Hilmerová

Monika Hilmerová

Michal Dlouhý

Michal Dlouhý

Michal Kubovčík

Michal Kubovčík

Pavel Slabý

Pavel Slabý

Ján Jackuliak

Ján Jackuliak

Pavel Nový

Pavel Nový

Roman Luknár

Roman Luknár

Alice Bendová

Alice Bendová

Petra Molnárová

Petra Molnárová

Marián Mitaš

Marián Mitaš

Milan Chalmovský

Milan Chalmovský

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