The Candidate
Film poster
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.^[1]

• Wolf Biermann
• Karl Carstens
• Edmund Stoiber
• Franz Josef Strauß
• Marianne Strauß

• The Candidate at IMDb
• The Candidate at the TCM Movie Database