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Scene from ”Vote for Henryk!“ (photo © Megaherz TV Film)<br />

Herr Wichmann von der CDU<br />

VOTE FOR HENRYK!<br />

An election campaign in the East German hinterland.<br />

Henryk Wichmann, 25-years-old and a member of the<br />

Christian Democratic Party (CDU), is running for a<br />

seat in the lower house of parliament and hopes to<br />

give it a young and energetic voice. His chances are<br />

not good in a region dominated by the Social<br />

Democrats. But Henryk Wichmann keeps on fighting<br />

…<br />

Genre Politics, Society Category Documentary TV Year<br />

of Production 2003 Director Andreas Dresen<br />

Screenplay Andreas Dresen Director of Photography<br />

Andreas Hoefer (bvk) Editor Joerg Hauschild<br />

Producer Franz Xaver Gernstl, Fidelis Mager Production<br />

Company Megaherz TV Film, Munich, in cooperation with<br />

BR, Munich, WDR, Cologne Length 71 min, 1,953 Format<br />

Digi-Beta, 16:9 Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original<br />

Version German Subtitled Version English Sound<br />

Technology Stereo International Festival Screenings<br />

Berlin 2003, Pusan 2003 With backing from<br />

Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA), Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg<br />

German Distributor Piffl Medien GmbH, Berlin<br />

World Sales:<br />

TELEPOOL GmbH · Carlos Hertel<br />

Sonnenstrasse 21 · 80331 Munich/Germany<br />

phone +49-89-55 87 60 · fax +49-89-55 87 61 88<br />

email: telepool@telepool.de · www.telepool.de<br />

Andreas Dresen was born in Gera in 1963. He was an<br />

intern at the DEFA Feature Film Studio from 1985-1986 and<br />

studied at the ”Konrad Wolf“ Academy of Film & Television in<br />

Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1986-1992. His first feature Stilles<br />

Land (1992) was awarded the Hesse Film Prize and the<br />

German Critics’ Award. He directed Goethe’s Urfaust at the<br />

Staatstheater in Cottbus in 1996 and made his second feature<br />

Night Shapes (Nachtgestalten) in 1998, which won the<br />

German Film Award in Silver in 1999 and the Pilar Miró Award for<br />

the Best New Director at Valladolid in 1999. His other <strong>films</strong><br />

include: Der kleine Clown (short, 1985), Schritte des<br />

anderen (short, 1987), Jenseits von Klein-<br />

Wanzleben (documentary, 1989), Zug in die Ferne<br />

(short, 1990), Mein unbekannter Ehemann (1995),<br />

Raus aus der Haut (TV, 1997), The Policewoman<br />

(Die Polizistin, 2000), Grill Point (Halbe Treppe,<br />

2001), and Vote for Henryk! (Herr Wichmann von<br />

der CDU, 2003).<br />

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