The Candidate (2013)
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.
Director: Jonáš Karásek
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Marek Majeský as |
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Monika Hilmerová as |
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Michal Dlouhý as |
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Michal Kubovčík as |
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Pavel Slabý as |
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Ján Jackuliak as |
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Pavel Nový as |
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Roman Luknár as |
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Alice Bendová as |
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Petra Molnárová as |
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Marián Mitaš as |
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Milan Chalmovský as |
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Lukáš Pelč as |
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Dušan Vicen as |
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Michal Havran ml. as |
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Lucia Molnárová as |
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Danica Matušová as |
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Bruno Olejár as |
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Judit Pecháček as |
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Miloš Zeman as |
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Ľubomír Burgr as |
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Dominika Morávková-Zeleníková as Hana |
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Jana Holková as |
| Writing | Michal Havran ml. | Writer |
| Directing | Jonáš Karásek | Director |
| Writing | Maroš Hečko | Writer |
| Writing | Peter Balko | Writer |
| Camera | Tomáš Juríček | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Matúš Široký | Music |
| Production | Maroš Hečko | Producer |
| Sound | Peter Kučera | Sound Designer |
| Editing | Matej Beneš | Editor |