HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT Documentary Movie

HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: This debut by Austrian film scholar, historian, curator Alexander Horwath – the former Director of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum – Henry Fonda for President represents, as its title suggests, a filmic portrait of the actor Henry Fonda, but it is anything but a conventional Hollywood portrait.

While it is structured chronologically according to the progression of Fonda’s life and career, the film transcends individual portraiture by using Fonda as a prism through to explore and meditate upon the changing (and intimately intertwined) politics, society, and culture of the United States in Fonda’s time.

Extending the tradition of seminal reflections on America by commentators from abroad, Henry Fonda for President achieves the near-impossible, articulating a genuinely new and profoundly insightful take on 1900s-80s American culture, and on the legacy of this era both on the wider world and on the present day.

Henry Fonda for President is directed by Austrian cinema lover / filmmaker Alexander Horwath.