Vote for Henryk!

The documentary follows an election campaign. The year is 2002 and the country is Germany. Henryk Wichmann is the candidate of the conservative party. The district he stands in is the Uckermark. It lies in the east of the country and its population is falling. The young candidate is unknown. He goes from door to door explaining himself. In halls he speaks to a handful of people. He hands out leaflets, shakes hands and listens. What the people in front of him care about is something else. Unemployment and people leaving are what get discussed. His chance of winning is slight from the start. The camera follows him knowing that. The account does not mock him and keeps its distance. Henryk Wichmann and Angela Merkel appear in the eighty minute documentary, a German production Andreas Dresen finished in 2003.