Dictator: One Crazy Job

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 12, 2013

Original language

French

Spoken languages

English, French, Romanian, Turkish, Turkmen

Countries

France

Production

Canal+,BeTV,CAPA,Planète+,Canal+ Afrique

Cast

Germina Nagat,Frédéric Lagache,Jean-Pierre Papin,Tristan Mendès France,Saddam Hussein,Dowlet Amanlykow,Kim Jong-il,Recep Cesur,Kenji Fujimoto,Patrick Le Layand 19 more

Director

Alain Charlot

Producer

Jean-Marie Michel

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt9265532