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1980 film

The Candidate
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Directed by	Volker Schlöndorff Stefan Aust Alexander Kluge Alexander von Eschwege [de]
Written by	Volker Schlöndorff Stefan Aust Alexander Kluge Alexander von Eschwege
Produced by	Theo Hinz Eberhard Junkersdorf Alexander Kluge Volker Schlöndorff
Starring	Wolf Biermann, Karl Carstens, Edmund Stoiber
Cinematography	Bodo Kessler
Edited by	Inge Behrens Mulle Goetz-Dickopp Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus Jane Seitz
Distributed by	Bioskop Film, Filmverlag der Autoren, Kairos-Film
Release date	18 April 1980 (1980-04-18)
Running time	129 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

The Candidate (German: Der Kandidat) is a 1980 West German documentary film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge and Alexander von Eschwege [de]. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

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v t e Alexander Kluge
Films directed	Yesterday Girl (1966) Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973) In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death (1974) three segments in Germany in Autumn (1978) The Candidate (1980) The Power of Feelings [de] (1983) The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
Literature	"Anita G." (1962) The Battle (1964) Air Raid (1977)

v t e Films directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Fiction films	Young Törless (1966) A Degree of Murder (1967) Man on Horseback (1969) Baal (1970) The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971) The Morals of Ruth Halbfass (1972) A Free Woman (1972) Übernachtung in Tirol (1974) The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) Coup de Grâce (1976) Germany in Autumn (1978) The Tin Drum (1979) Circle of Deceit (1981) Swann in Love (1984) Death of a Salesman (1985) A Gathering of Old Men (1987) The Handmaid's Tale (1990) Voyager (1991) The Ogre (1996) Palmetto (1998) The Legend of Rita (2000) The Ninth Day (2004) Enigma - Eine uneingestandene Liebe (2005) Strike (2006) Ulzhan (2007) Calm at Sea (2011) Diplomacy (2014) Return to Montauk (2017)
Documentaries	Nur zum Spaß, nur zum Spiel (1977) The Candidate (1980) War and Peace (1984) The Michael Nyman Songbook (1992) Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine (2002) Billy Wilder Speaks (2006)

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