if...Production in coproduction with BR, Luigi Falorni, University of Television and Film Munich
promoted by FFF Bayern and FFA
Script, direction, sound: Nancy Brandt
camera: Wolfgang Busch
further camera: Lotta Kilian, Christiane Schmidt, Thomas Beckmann, Thomas Doberitzsch, Ralf Hahmann, ralf Bücheler, Daniel Samer
editor: Mechthild Barth, Nancy Brandt
music: Michael Edwards
TV editor: Petra Felber, Natalie Lambsdorff, Martin Kowalczyk
producer: Ingo Fliess, if...Productions
German distribution: Peter Stockhaus, déjà-vu Film
shooting time: 2009-2013
100 min, colour, HD, Dolby SR
with:
Steffen Bilger (CDU)
Sebastian Körber (FDP)
Daniela Kolbe (SPD)
Agnes Krumwiede (Bündnis90/Die Grünen)
Niema Movassat (Linke)
Synopsis
ELECTED is a film about five young German politicians aged 25 to 32, who are elected for the first time into the German Parliament, the Bundestag: a physicist ELECfrom Leipzig, a pianist from Ingolstadt, an architect from Forchheim, a lawyer from Ludwigsburg and a graduated lawyer from Oberhausen. Their legislative period started in 2009 and will end in 2013. What do they expect to happen in Berlin? What are their ideas and maybe doubts? How will their lives change now that they are part of "important politics"? Can they live up to their own resolutions? Can they change something or will they just blend in? How do they experience democracy in their home country? What kind of success or disappointments will they experience?
The film accompanies these five young politicians over the whole legislative period of four years, from their first days in parliament to the next general elections in 2013.