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Dictator: One Crazy Job
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Dictator: One Crazy Job

2013-06-12 · 52 min · ★ 6.5

Documentary · TV 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.

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Directors
Alain Charlot
Production companies
CAPA, Canal+, Planète+, Canal+ Afrique, BeTV
Countries
France
Status
Released

Top Cast

Recep CesurSelf
Saddam HusseinSaddam HusseinSelf (archive footage)
Kenji FujimotoSelf
Kim Jong-ilKim Jong-ilSelf (archive footage)
Nicolas RighettiSelf
Saparmyrat NyýazowSaparmyrat NyýazowSelf (archive footage)
Gurbanguly BerdimuhamedowGurbanguly BerdimuhamedowSelf (archive footage)
Frédéric LagacheSelf (archive footage)
Martin BouyguesMartin BouyguesSelf (archive footage)
Jean-Claude NarcyJean-Claude NarcySelf (archive footage)
Patrick Le LayPatrick Le LaySelf (archive footage)
John RibeiroSelf
Teodoro Obiang NguemaTeodoro Obiang NguemaSelf (archive footage)
Jean-Bedel BokassaJean-Bedel BokassaSelf (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre DupontSelf
Vasile CrisanSelf
Kirsan IlyumzhinovKirsan IlyumzhinovSelf (archive footage)
Tristan Mendès FranceTristan Mendès FranceSelf
Germina NagatSelf
Ramzan KadyrovRamzan KadyrovSelf (archive footage)

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