The election campaigner
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The election campaigner |
| Original title | Our Brand Is Crisis |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Gordon Green |
| script | Peter Straughan |
| production |
George Clooney , Grant Heslov |
| music | David Wingo |
| camera | Tim Orr |
| cut | Colin Patton |
| occupation | |
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The election campaigner (Original title: Our Brand Is Crisis ) is a film drama directed by David Gordon Green from 2015 with Sandra Bullock in the lead role. The plot is inspired by Rachel Boynton's documentary Our Brand Is Crisis about the Bolivian presidential campaign in 2002.
action
The Bolivian presidential candidate Pedro Castillo does very poorly in the polls and hires a group of accomplished American campaign advisors under the leadership of the badly ailing but still brilliant strategist "Calamity Jane" Bodine (Bullock). Jane got her nickname from a scandal that shook her deeply. The fact that she is still getting involved in the new campaign has to do with her archenemy, the disgusting Pat Candy (Thornton), who works for the most promising candidate to date, Victor Rivera. Jane finally gets the chance to beat Candy. But Candy knows Jane's sore points - privately and during the election campaign - only too well, and as a result she plunges into a personal crisis that can be compared to the situation that is exploited by her team to improve the polling results of the other side.
criticism
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"The film fluctuates a little undecided between high-pitched farce and pessimistic thriller, but it still offers humorous entertainment thanks to the courageous performances of Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton."
"The election campaigner" loops between cynical comedy and serious subject matter. No matter how good Sandra Bullock is - the current US election campaign is better. "
background
The role of Jane Bodine was written for a man and targeted by George Clooney. He had already secured the rights to the political documentary “Our Brand Is Crisis” by Rachel Boynton in 2007 with his production company Smoke House. The documentary revolves around the conservative presidential candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada , who brought Washington strategists to Bolivia in 2002. As blonde Jane Bodine, Oscar winner Bullock had one of the worst US theatrical releases of her career.
Web links
- The election campaigner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official German website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Die Wahlkampfin . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2015 (PDF; test number: 56 461 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Die Wahlkampfin . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from warnerbros.de , accessed on January 22, 2016
- ↑ [1] , accessed on January 22, 2016
- ↑ [2] on filmstarts.de , accessed on January 22, 2016
- ↑ [3] on sueddeutsche.de , accessed on January 22, 2016
- ↑ [4] on focus.de , accessed on January 22, 2016
