HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT

By Alexander HORWATH

AUSTRIAN FILMS - as PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2024


Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale 2024
Forum
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • AUSTRIA
    • Duration
    • 184 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alexander HORWATH
    • Writer(s)
    • Alexander HORWATH
    • Producer(s)
    • Ralph WIESER (MISCHIEF FILMS), Irene HÖFER (MISCHIEF FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • A personal essay about the United States, viewed through the life and work of a movie actor. Henry Fonda and the roles he played merge into a dazzling and conflicted figure. A very private man who thought he had “no good answers to anything” becomes the unlikely motor of a parallel history. His voice, recorded during his last interview in 1981, and his onscreen avatars guide us through America’s past and present – on a road trip from the village of Fonda, NY, across the Midwest to the Pacific; from 1651 to the 1980s and the presidency of another movie actor. It takes many places and times and characters to imagine an invisible republic – the United States of Fonda.