The Candidate (German: Der Kandidat) is a 1980 West German documentary film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge and Alexander von Eschwege [de].

It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

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