SPECIAL SCREENING: Dokumentarfilm "Henry Fonda for President" mit Regiegespräch

Special screening of the documentary "Henry Fonda for President" by Alexander Horwath.

In attendance and followed by a discussion with the director.

As part of the MittDOKs series of DOKFEST Munich.

A documentary essay about the USA - seen through the lens of a film actor. Henry Fonda and his roles merge into a dazzling and conflict-ridden figure. A very reserved man who sees himself as anonymous, as a "blank space", becomes the driving force, the secret author of a great American narrative.

His voice, recorded in 1981 during his last interview, and the characters he played lead us through the film - and on a road trip across the USA: from a place called Fonda, NY, via the Midwest, where the actor grew up, to the Pacific.

And they take us through the history of the country, from 1651 to the 1980s, when another movie actor became US president.

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"It's amazing." - Richard Linklater

"Grandiose, incredible, inconceivable. A standard work." - Elfriede Jelinek