Original title
Henry Fonda for President
Released
1/30/2025
Origin country
AT, DE
Genre
Documentary
Production companies
ARTE, ZDF, Mischief Films, Medea Film Factory
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Runtime
3hr 5min
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.
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