CinemaOSMovie · 2013 · 0h 52m

Dictator: One Crazy Job

65%(2)IMDbDocumentaryTV Movie

They’ve become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, Nicolae Ceausescu, Bokassa, Muammar Kadhafi, Khomeini, Mussolini and Franco governed their countries completely cut off from reality. These paranoid leaders were driven to abuse their power by the pathology of power itself. Dictators are driven by a relentless, thought-out determination to impose themselves as infallible, all-knowing and all-powerful beings. But they are also men ruled by their caprices, uncontrollable impulses, and reckless fits of frenzy, which paradoxically render them as human as anyone else. The abuses they committed were clearly atrocious, yet some of them were as outlandish as the characters portrayed in the film The Dictator. They sunk to depths worthy of Kafka: so incredibly absurd, they are outrageously funny.

Directed byAlain Charlot

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 52m
Language
FR
Released
June 12, 2013
Studios
CAPACanal+Planète+

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring

Recep Cesur

Self

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Self (archive footage)

Kenji Fujimoto

Self

Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il

Self (archive footage)

Nicolas Righetti

Self

Saparmyrat Nyýazow

Saparmyrat Nyýazow

Self (archive footage)

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow

Self (archive footage)

Frédéric Lagache

Self (archive footage)

Martin Bouygues

Martin Bouygues

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Claude Narcy

Jean-Claude Narcy

Self (archive footage)

Creative team
Directed by
Alain Charlot

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